Ghyll Farmhouse

Ghyll Farmhouse is a late 17th-century farmhouse and cottage that has been converted into a single house. It is constructed of rubble with a stone slate roof and features an end-entry plan. The building has two storeys, a two-storey rear outshut, and originally included a loft. The front facade has three first-floor windows, one of which is blocked. The right side has quoins, and there are double-chamfered windows throughout.

On the ground floor, from left to right, there is a 4-light window with a central king mullion, a 4-panel door set in a cement surround, a 2-light window, and another 4-light window, with the two left lights of the last window altered to form a door. A moulded string course runs above the second and third windows, extending partway along the right gable. On the first floor, there is a 4-light window with a central king mullion, a blocked 2-light window that once lit a staircase beside the chimney-breast, and another 4-light window with a central king mullion. A double stack chimney is located between the first and second bays.

The rear of the building retains some original mullion windows. The right return features a board door in a chamfered ashlar surround, a blocked single-light double-chamfered first-floor window, and a blocked 2-light double-chamfered mullion window in the gable, which originally had a steeper pitch for thatch.

Inside, the farmhouse has board doors, stop-chamfered beams and joists. In the ground-floor room on the far left, there is a fireplace with a segmental arched slab lintel, which has been scored to appear joggled but is now incomplete and patched with rubble. The stone stairs have an open-well plan with stick balusters, possibly a later addition, and there is a cheese room and dairy flanking the stairs. It is believed that the building was once used as a dame school.