Mire House

Mire House is a farmhouse, with an added cottage, dating back to the 17th century, and significantly altered and remodelled in the mid to later 18th century. Further additions, including the cottage, were made subsequently. The house is constructed of roughly-coursed mixed rubble with quoins, and has a graduated stone slate roof with blue slates in the upper courses.

The house follows a linear single-depth plan, oriented east to west facing north. Originally a two-unit house, likely with a baffle entry, it now incorporates a rear outshut containing a staircase and dairy, two service bays added at the east end, and a front outshut extending from these. A cottage is attached to the west end.

The symmetrical façade, largely rebuilt in the 18th century, features a central segmental-headed doorway with a fielded panelled door and a near-semicircular canopy supported by added posts. Remains of a former mullioned window are visible to the left of the doorway, with a segmental-headed 20-pane hornless sash window and a smaller 4-pane sash window alongside. Two similarly sized sashes, one 12-pane, one 4-pane, are located on the first floor. Corniced ridge chimneys mark the junctions with the additions on either side. A full-height lean-to, covering a former 2-light mullioned window, is attached to the left, featuring a doorway, a renewed 2-light casement and a round-headed 9-pane fixed window. The cottage to the right has a narrow doorway and a 9-pane fixed window above it. The east gable incorporates a 20th-century flat-roofed addition, while the west gable of the cottage displays through-stones on three levels and a 2-light mullioned window on each floor. The rear elevation includes a wide full-height outshut and several small sash windows to all three sections.

Internally, the ground floor features three lateral beams, the first boxed, the second with mortices for former joists and an inserted beam above, and the third displaying mortices for a relocated muntin-and-plank partition. "Cat-malison" cupboards are attached to the first beam and partition, with numerous bacon hooks in the ceiling. The left room contains a large 18th-century stone fireplace, a built-in cupboard with fielded panel doors, and the top of a similar cupboard over a late bureau. Two pairs of gun-rings are visible in the kitchen ceiling. A dog-legged stone staircase has two turned balusters per tread and a moulded handrail. The roof comprises two 18th-century principal-rafter trusses with light scantling collars and added tie-beams.

Mire House forms a group with the barn located to the north-east.