Sawyers Garth

Sawyers Garth is a house that dates from the mid to late 17th century, with additions made in 1709 and 1714, and alterations in the mid 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed from limestone rubble and features a graduated stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and consists of three bays to the left of an added two-storey gabled porch, and two bays to the right. The corners of the house are marked by quoins.

The porch includes a four-panel door with chamfered quoined jambs. Above the door, the lintel has a recessed panel with a scalloped border and relief lettering that reads "T I T". There is a four-light flat-faced mullion window on the first floor of the porch, with the mullions slightly recessed. To the left of the porch, the three-bay range features a central half-glazed door flanked by sash windows on both the ground and first floors, all with plain surrounds. The left side has gutter brackets, a moulded kneeler, and gable coping.

To the right of the porch, the two-bay range includes a 20th-century glazed door and window to the left, and a four-pane sash window in a recessed chamfered surround above. There is a blocked doorway with a 20th-century window to the right, which has chamfered quoined jambs and a triangular recess above the lintel with the letters "I T T 1714" in relief. A segmental-arched chamfered window is located to the left of this doorway, with a 20th-century two-light window above. The eaves line is lower on the right-hand bay, and there are 19th-century cart doors with a wooden lintel at the far right.

The house has an external stack at the left end and a large ridge stack above the porch entrance, both of which are banded. The left return features a large external stack, a small chamfered window on the first floor to the right, and an inserted window on the ground floor.

Inside, there is a fine stone staircase with bulbous knopped oak balusters located inside the porch on the left side of the entrance passage. The central fireplace has a bressumer beam supported by a vertical heckpost, next to which a board door provides access to the porch and staircase. Sawyers Garth is recognized as an important vernacular house that retains an early fireplace (now underbuilt) and an early staircase. The porch with the staircase is typical of the late 17th to early 18th century in this area.