Armitstead Farmhouse Garden Wall And Adjoining Farm Buildings

Armitstead Farmhouse, built around 1790 with origins dating back to the 17th century and later alterations in the 20th century, features a design with slobbered rubble stone dressings and a stone slate roof. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has three bays, with the central bay slightly projecting and topped by a pediment. The central entrance is framed by a pedimented surround supported by four Doric pilasters, with a fanlight above and two single-light windows on either side, featuring fixed lights added around 1980. The door, also from around 1980, is located in this entrance.

The ground floor has two tripartite windows, while the upper floor has three, all with projecting surrounds and flat-faced mullions. The central lights of these windows have 12-pane sashes, and the flanking lights have 8-pane sashes. A sill band runs along the upper floor, and the building is accented by projecting quoins. Fluted rainwater heads from the 1780s are positioned to the left and right of the central bay, and there are shaped modillions at the eaves, along with gable end kneelers and coping. Ridge stacks are located at the gable ends.

On the left-hand return, there is a tall round-headed staircase window with a projecting surround. The left-hand outshut has a catslide roof, and there is an entrance with a c1740s eared architrave, featuring a six-panel door where the upper two panels are now glazed. A central heightened three-light ovolo mullioned chamfered window has an 8-pane casement and fixed lights. The right-hand side has a former two-light double chamfered window, now missing its mullion, with an 8-pane fixed light and a hoodmould.

Inside, the entrance hall showcases two Tuscan pillars. The former dining room features an 18th-century fireplace with a moulded surround, a decorated segmental lintel with a fluted imitation keystone, and a cornice.

The garden wall is constructed of rubble and has a bowed front at the right-hand entrance. To the right of the farmhouse, there is an adjoining range of 14 farm buildings that includes four entrances with 17th-century chamfered surrounds and basket-arched lintels, as well as two waggon entrances that have been blocked to create windows.