The Firkers

The Firkers is a house located on the north side of Finghall Village Street, dating from the early to mid-18th century. It is constructed of coursed rubble and features a combination of 20th-century pantile and Welsh slate roofs. The building has two storeys and an outshut, with two first-floor windows and one centrally located on the ground floor. The main block includes a central 20th-century gabled open porch that leads to a boarded door, flanked by side-sliding sash windows and end stacks.

To the right, there is a lower added range that has quoins, a six-pane casement window on the first floor, a Welsh slate roof, ashlar coping on the right, and a 20th-century stack on the rear roof pitch. The rear of the house features herringbone tooling on an ashlar doorway. On the right side, there is a boarded door on the ground floor and a blocked pitching door above.

Inside, the entry leads to a living room with a flagged floor and an 18th-century ashlar surround for the kitchen range on the right. The interior also includes chamfered beams and joists, six fielded panel doors at the front of the house, and boarded doors in the outshut. There is an open well staircase located in the outshut. The lower range to the right was previously used as a cow-byre with a hayloft above. The building is included for its group value.