Sherwood House Farmhouse

Sherwood House Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1703, with alterations from the late 18th century. It is constructed of slobbered rubble with stone dressings and features a stone slate roof. The building has a direct entry plan and stands two storeys high with four bays. The late 18th-century entrance is located in the third bay and has a plain surround made of milled stone, topped with a gabled slate hood and a four-panel door. To the right of the entrance is a ground floor three-light window with flat faced recessed mullions, and above it is a former doorhead that is dated and features the initials RAT (Robert Anthony Twistleton of Winskill) within a triangular panel, indicating the position of the early 18th-century entrance. On the extreme left, there are two two-light double chamfered mullioned windows with a continuous dripmould that rises over the 1703 datestones. The upper floor has four similar two-light windows, all of which have 20th-century casements. The farmhouse has a central ridge stack and a left-hand gable end ridge stack, while the right-hand gable end ridge stack projects and is supported by two stone slate corbels. Inside, there is a massive inglenook fireplace, which is now blocked, featuring 14 joggled voussoirs and a decorated keystone inscribed with the number 1 30.