How Hill farmhouse and barn

This property comprises a farmhouse, dating to at least the 18th century, and an earlier barn.

The farmhouse is built of thick, un-coursed rubble stone with stone dressings, set beneath a shallow-pitched slate roof. It is an L-shaped range forming the north-east corner of a later courtyard farmstead, oriented north-west to south-east. The three-bay, two-storey farmhouse has truncated end stacks and three roof lights. The right bay features an off-centre entrance with prominent, chamfered quoins and a worn stone threshold, flanked to the right by a square window opening with a stone surround and wide wooden boards. The central bay has a similar window set high up, serving as a stair window, retaining partial remains of a small timber window frame with some glass panes. The left bay has a similar square window at ground floor level. A pair of narrow, rectangular window openings, set beneath the eaves to light the loft, are located in the right and left bays, both retaining timber mullioned window frames.

Attached to the north-west gable is a linking range with an undulating roof ridge, possibly indicating an early roof structure, from which projects a stone-built barn with an undulating, shallow-pitched slate roof. The full-height barn entrance is at the south-west corner, with slightly projecting wing walls and a pentice roof. A tall, centrally placed entrance of early form, featuring a monolithic, chamfered lintel with alternating jambs (now blocked), is present. The barn has ventilation slits in both the front and rear elevations and has been extended to the north-west at a later date in stone with prominent quoins.

The farmhouse ground floor has a stone-flagged floor and includes a chimney breast against the south-east gable, incorporating a stone fireplace with a stone hob. Window openings have stone seats positioned beneath. There is a stone stair leading to the first-floor loft, which has white plastered walls and a timber roof structure consisting of hand-hewn, waney triangular trusses supporting double purlins.

The barn contains a full, timber cruck-framed roof structure, including components such as a saddle piece, purlins, collars and wind braces.