Linton Gill

Linton Gill is a farmhouse and attached farm building dating to the mid-17th century or earlier, with alterations and additions in the 19th century and minor alterations in the 20th century. The house is constructed of random rubble with a rubble plinth, whitewashed on the main elevations, and features irregular quoins and dressed stone surrounds to the openings. The roof is stone slated, with brick stacks to the ends, while the outbuilding has Welsh slates over stone slated eaves. The building follows a modified long-house plan, with the house and outbuilding separated by a through passage, and the original house entrance located within this passage.

The house part has two bays and two storeys, with an added outshot to the left (west) bay, which incorporates a later doorway with a flush stone surround extending to eaves height. A small, high-level window is present to the right. The rear (south) elevation has three, two-light windows to each floor, with flush stone surrounds, previously mullioned. A small fire window with a chamfered stone surround to the east end serves a hearth recess within. Internally, the partition between rooms on the ground floor has been removed, but spine beams and joists remain exposed. The east end hearth has an 18th-century surround, now damaged by 19th-century inserts, while the west bay hearth has a 19th-century cast iron surround.

The outbuilding is a single-storey structure with an overloft, featuring two doorways to the front elevation. The doorway to the right serves the through passage and has a chamfered surround and deep lintol, as does the corresponding rear doorway. The remaining door is the byre entry, with a planked door and a chamfered stone surround. Overloft doors are on both the front and rear walls. A timber lean-to building against the east gable is not of particular architectural interest. The through passage contains the original house entrance, with a chamfered stone surround, now blocked. The building is an increasingly rare example of a modified long-house plan, an evolution of the early long house where humans and animals shared a common entrance. The survival of the through passage, with the principal hearth backing onto it and the original house entrance enclosed by it, is notably significant.