Steps Farmhouse With Adjoining Barn And Byres

Steps Farmhouse, dating from the late 17th century, features an adjoining barn and byres, with later additions and alterations. The structure is built of coursed rubble with quoins on a plinth, while the front of the house is stuccoed. It has graduated slate roofs and a stair outshut at the rear. The house is two storeys tall and likely originally had a cross-passage plan with four bays and a byre. On the ground floor, there are two sash windows, a blocked two-light stone-mullioned window in between, and a blocked fire window to the far left, all beneath a drip-course. The right-hand sash window may have replaced the original door. Above, there are three sash windows. To the left, there is a single-bay 18th-century extension with a 20th-century part-glazed door and a sash window above. The chimneys are rendered. The byres are located to the left and right, sharing the same roofline, with a higher barn or byre added at right angles to the far left. The entrances to the barn and byre are located at the rear and returns. Inside, there is a court cupboard built into the wall, possibly from the cross-passage, featuring large moulded doors. A chamfered fire-beam is boxed in, creating shallow cupboards with mouldings similar to those of the court cupboard. There is also a single-storey 20th-century corrugated iron building adjoining the byre on the left, which is not of interest.