Barf End

This is an early to mid-18th century house, with later 19th and 20th century alterations and additions. It is constructed of coursed rubble, with a graduated stone slate roof and a central stone chimney stack.

The building comprises several elements: a roofless section to the right, a central house, a barn to the right, a dairy outshut to the rear right, and a barn outshut to the front left. The south-facing ruinous section has three window openings to both the ground and first floors, with remaining jambs, and single stone slab lintels and cills. Large quoins mark the junction with the main house. The house itself has a plank door to the right, a six-pane vertical sash window to the left, and a smaller single-pane window nearby. The first floor has a two-pane vertical sash window and another small single-pane window. A plank door, with a stone relieving arch, leads to a narrow storage area, alongside which is a 20th-century barn outshut with a door on its eastern side. The rear elevation has several blocked openings in the barn and two breather holes.

The front door opens directly into a three-bay ground floor room, containing a large open fireplace with a single 18th-century jowelled post. The opposite side has been remodelled with later inserted stone shelves and a wooden mantel. A plank door leads to a small dairy outshut at the rear. Three large, probably original, beams span the room, supporting a 20th-century ceiling structure. A stone spiral staircase rises to the first floor, with stone shelves beneath. The single upstairs room is open to the roof structure, with a doorway leading to a central storeroom, a blocked fireplace, a door into the ruinous part, and a blocked window to the rear. The barn contains an original entrance doorway and several blocked windows.

Evidence suggests the roofless bay is the oldest part, indicating an original date of around 1730, with quoins and a datestone. A fire window to the left of the former fireplace shows that this was originally an outside wall. The main house and barn range are probably later in the 18th century, with the central entranceway positioned to the left of the fireplace. The roof was raised above the original first floor window height, likely at the time a larger window was inserted and another window was blocked. The addition of the dairy outshut to the rear resulted in the blocking of a rear first floor window. Later insertions include the larger windows and the existing front door. The older part was originally incorporated into the newer house; however, it was later abandoned. Roof timbers were replaced in the 20th century, and the barn outshut is also of that period.