Hallgarth Farmhouse And Hallgarth Cottage

Hallgarth Farmhouse and Hallgarth Cottage are an early 17th-century farmhouse, now a house, with later 17th-18th century and early-mid 18th-century alterations. The building is constructed of rubble with a stone slate roof. It is two storeys high, featuring three first-floor windows, and has a double-depth plan to the central bay. The windows are double-chamfered mullion windows with ovolo moulding and hoodmoulds to the first and second ground-floor windows. Other windows are flat-faced mullioned and set within architraves. The ground floor features, from left, a blocked doorway, a four-light window, a 20th-century porch with a part-glazed inner door, a five-light window, an early 18th-century door of six fielded panels within a chamfered quoined surround with a hoodmould, and a three-light window. First-floor windows comprise four-, three- and three-light openings. Kneelers fashioned from thin slabs of stone with ovolo moulding are present at the front, topped with ashlar coping. Chimneys are positioned between the first and second, second and third bays and at the right end. A two-storey extension, set back to the right, is not of particular architectural interest. The rear of the building incorporates an 18th-century two-light mullion-and-transom landing window with flat-faced mullions within a hollow-chamfered surround. Adjacent to this is a first-floor three-light double-chamfered mullion window with ovolo moulding and a hoodmould with run-out stops and a large slab at the base; a blocked continuation of this window is visible from the inside. The interior of the left ground-floor room contains a 17th-century ashlar fireplace with ovolo moulding on the arris, with a renewed bressumer, and a fielded-panel window seat. The central ground-floor room features an 18th-century ashlar fireplace, likely altered, a fielded-panel window seat, six-panel doors with L hinges, stop-chamfered reused beams and joists. The right ground-floor room contains very broadly chamfered and stopped beams, fielded-panel shutters with H hinges, a matching window seat, fielded-panel doors to a cupboard on the inner wall, and a stone staircase within the 18th-century landing window. Above the staircase are two roof trusses with overlapping trenched purlins diagonally joined at each truss. Evidence of a firehood in the central room, alongside the ovolo mullion windows, indicates this is one of the earliest houses in the area.