Flatts Farmhouse, Garden Walls And Railings

Flatts Farmhouse, along with its garden walls and railings, is an early to mid-18th century farmhouse that has earlier origins, with 19th century railings. The building is constructed of coursed rubble and features a stone slate roof and cast-iron railings. The farmhouse is two storeys high with a rear two-storey outshut and has a layout of two bays on the left and one bay on the right.

The left two bays have quoins, and the central entrance features a part-glazed four-panel door set in a raised-quoin surround, topped with a wooden canopy supported by wrought-iron brackets. Above the door is a large triangular-headed ashlar panel with an inscription dated 1861, commemorating Henry Constantine, known as the Coverdale Bard. The windows in this section are three-light flat-faced mullions set in ashlar architraves, with a shaped kneeler and ashlar coping to the left. There are end stacks, with the left stack being corniced.

To the right, the bay is slightly recessed, also with quoins. It features 16-pane sash windows in flush ashlar surrounds and an end stack to the right. The left return of the outshut has a two-light double-chamfered mullion window on each floor.

In front of the house, the garden walls are made of coursed rubble with slab coping, and along the front, there is a low ashlar round-arched base that supports the railings, which have fleurs-de-lys finials and a central gate. The gate piers and terminals of the side walls are made of chamfered rusticated ashlar and topped with pyramidal caps.

Henry Constantine was a prosperous landowner, the overseer for rates and tithes in Coverdale, and the founder of several charities. He commissioned the inscription on the house himself and passed away in 1869 at the age of 72.