Village Farmhouse

This is a mid-17th century farmhouse, now a house, located on the north side of Main Street, Middleton Tyas. The building is constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings, topped with a pantile roof and stone slates at the eaves. It is two storeys high, with a rear outshut and a cross-passage plan, originally featuring four windows on the first floor. The corners of the building are emphasised by quoins. A 20th-century part-glazed door is recessed within a quoined, moulded ashlar surround with a triangular pediment and hood-mould, positioned in the third bay. Above the door is a blocked, keyed oculus. The windows are largely 20th-century casements, although the ground-floor window in the second bay retains the jambs and hood-mould of a former two-light mullion window, and the first-floor windows on both sides show remnants of similar surrounds. Shaped kneelers and ashlar copings adorn the roof. Brick stacks are visible at both ends of the building and to the left of the front door. The left return side features a stepped external stack and a blocked first-floor single-light window surround. Inside, the first floor has cambered stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. A large inglenook fireplace with a baffle to the rear is situated in the ground-floor room to the left of the cross passage.