Barnskew Farmhouse With Byre And Barn Ranges Adjoining

Barnskew Farmhouse is a house with adjoining barn and byre ranges, dated 1676 on the lintel and featuring the initials H M H. The eaves were raised and the house was extended in the 18th century, with the byre located to the left and the barn at right angles to the right. The structure is built of coursed, squared rubble with quoins; the house is pebble-dashed while the barn is white-washed. It has graduated slate roofs and an 'L'-shaped plan with outshuts at the rear. The house and byre are two storeys tall, while the barn is a single tall storey with a lower outbuilding adjoining it.

The house has six bays overall with a plinth. There is a part-glazed door in the extension, with a 20th-century casement to the left and a three-light, flat-mullioned window to the right. The original part of the house, located to the right, features a sash window with glazing bars inserted into a blocked doorway, a two-light, chamfered-mullion window to the left, and a blocked window to the right, all beneath a continuous hoodmould. There are four windows on the first floor. The house has two stone chimneys, with the right-hand one being stepped and corniced.

The byre has four doors on the ground floor, with stone steps leading up to two first-floor doors, all of which are planked in stone surrounds. The five-bay barn includes a large wagon entrance, with vent-slits above a casement and door on the right. It features a reused 17th-century doorhead and window surround at the rear, along with a corniced chimney on the gable. The adjoining outbuilding has a plank door with a fixed window above. A fireplace mentioned in the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England in 1936 was removed around 1940.