Home Farmhouse And Attached Farm Buildings

Home Farmhouse and attached farm buildings date from around 1877 and were designed by Paley and Austin for Sir James Ramsden to serve his demolished home, Abbotswood. The buildings are shown as Abbot's Wood House on Ordnance Survey maps. The construction is of sawn ashlar sandstone with red tile roofs featuring roll-moulded ridges. The range is arranged in a U-shape around a courtyard, comprising, clockwise, a T-shaped cottage, a single-storey shippon and calf house, a barn with a boiling house, a right return range with pigsties, a stable with a loft, and a 1:3 bay cart shed.

The cottage is of one storey and an attic, with chamfered mullioned windows containing 8-pane sashes. The front has a gable to the left with a 3-light window above a 2-light window. A set-back section to the right features single and 2-light windows. It has a bargeboard with a pendant. The lower ridge to the right has a stack with a shared plinth to four round flues. The hipped right end incorporates a side-facing 3-light dormer. The right return, facing the courtyard, has a 3-light window to the ground floor and a door within a verandah to the right. A hipped roof dormer is above. The verandah continues to the right, with a roof supported on wooden posts and eaves broken by two gablets. It incorporates doors and mullioned windows to the shippon area. Louvred ridge vents are present.

The barn, across the end of the range, has large doors beneath the gable, flanked by a 3-light and a 4-light mullioned window, the latter with ventilation grills. A tall stack rises from the roof slope on the left. The right return range contains a manure house and two pigsties with a roof dormer. The stable features a square-headed door on the left and external steps to central loft door flanked by paired slits. It has a hipped roof surmounted by a bell turret with a swept, tiled spirelet with a finial. Bay 1 of the cart shed has a doorway; the remaining three bays are open-fronted with wooden posts and profiled braces. The cart shed's front gable features five slits below a corbelled wooden dovecote with 16 nesting holes. The courtyard is enclosed by later iron gates hung on original round gate piers. Original building plans, signed by Paley and Austin and approved in 1877, survive.