Ormsgill Farmhouse

Ormsgill Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1605, with an early 18th-century addition. It is constructed of red sandstone rubble and features a graduated slate roof. The building has two storeys with an attic and a window arrangement of three windows to one side and one to the other on the first floor. The large quoins are a notable feature. The earlier part of the farmhouse, located on the left, has a central door with a chamfered surround and a slab hood supported by shaped stone brackets. On either side of the door are chamfered three-light mullioned windows, and to the right is a single-light fire window. On the first floor, there is a 20th-century datestone above the door, along with three two-light chamfered mullioned windows. The addition on the right features a larger four-light mullioned window to the left of a boarded door, which is also set beneath a slab on shaped stone brackets. An altered three-light window above now has a two-light casement. The earlier section has a truncated end stack on the left and a rounded end stack on the right, while the addition shares the same roofline and has a right end stack with an oversailing verge.

Inside the earlier part of the farmhouse, there are spine beams and common joists in the ground floor ceilings, along with a bressumer beam set on a 20th-century heck wall. A 17th-century oak dogleg stair located in the outshut at the rear features turned balusters and square newels. The complete attic floor is made of oak boards on original joists, and there are collared principal-rafter trusses. The right end stack is cantilevered from the former gable on wooden beams, showing clear traces of a smokehood. The date 1605 is noted on a 20th-century datestone, which is said to be derived from documentary evidence.