Beckside Farmhouse And Attached Barn To South West

This is an early 18th-century farmhouse with an attached barn, likely altered and extended since its original construction. The house is built of roughly-coursed mixed rubble, painted white, with a roof of graduated slate, featuring stone-slate courses at the lower edges. It has a linear plan, running roughly east-west, with a single-depth house and a barn extending to the left.

The house is two storeys high and has a 2:1 window arrangement. The two-window section has a central doorway, protected by a small, gabled porch with a part-glazed door, along with a four-pane sash window to the left. Above this is a slightly smaller four-pane sash, and to the right is an oblong six-pane sash, with a square four-pane sash offset to the right above the doorway. The single-window section to the right has a broad, square-headed doorway, a square four-pane sash window, and a small rectangular four-pane sash above. Chimneys are positioned at the junctions of the gables of the two-window section.

Inside the house, there are two large lateral beams, with the one to the left of the front door forming the head of a panelled partition including some muntin-and-plank panelling. Matching 18th-century built-in cupboards with fielded panels are found in the front corners of the main rooms. A staircase runs along the rear wall of the second bay, while the third bay has a stone-flagged floor and two heavy axial beams, with stone shelving in the adjacent dairy.

The attached barn is a long range, with a shippon (cow shelter) under the left half and a prominent, three-bay, full-height lean-to attached to the right half. The lean-to has a wagon entrance in its center, now fitted with a 20th-century sliding door. The left half of the barn has through-stones at three levels, with a doorway at the left end of the shippon and stone steps leading to a loading doorway in the center. The lintel of the inner wagon doorway is constructed of reused cruck timbers. The barn’s roof is supported by principal rafter trusses, some with collars, carrying two pairs of trenched purlins. Many of the timbers are reused elements from a former timber-framed building, some bearing carpenter's marks.