Curload Farmhouse

Curload Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with an extension at the east end possibly from the 18th century, and alterations made in the early 19th century. The building is roughcast over rubble with a thatched roof featuring brick coped verges. The hipped roof extension has triple Roman tiles and a tall brick stack rising from the eaves, along with a brick stack at the left gable end. The farmhouse has a plan of three cells and a cross passage facing south, with a bakehouse addition at the east gable end and a coeval outshot at the northeast corner.

It is one and a half storeys tall with four bays on the front. The first floor has three-light wooden casements, while the extension has two-light windows. The ground floor features a six-pane sash window on the left, a two-light window on the left, and two more to the right of the entrance, with a 20th-century window in the extension. The entrance is marked by a waney timber thatched porch and a four-panel door with arched heads on the upper panels.

On the rear elevation, there is a three-light ovolo moulded mullioned window at the left end, and an early 19th-century leaded iron casement set below the eaves. Inside, the farmhouse features chamfered beams with bar, step, and run-out stops, and a moulded surround to a demolished lateral stack fireplace, which is visible beneath wallpaper on the north wall below the inserted early 19th-century stairs. There is a large circular recess to the left of the original kitchen stair and a collar beam roof. The hall, which is now featureless, is said to have contained extensive shelving in the early 20th century and may have been used as a cheese room, although the current owner believes it was a tack room.