Harnham Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Dating back to around the early 19th century, this building is an extension of an earlier house that was constructed in 1742. The exterior is built of dressed stone, with roughcast rendering at the rear. It has a slate hipped roof with lead rolls to the hips and ridge, and a gable-ended roof to the rear wing. Brick chimney shafts are located on the sides, with brick axial and gable-end stacks on the rear wing.

The building is laid out in a T-shape, with the main rooms on either side of the central entrance hall. This leads to a large stairwell at the rear, within a wing that includes a kitchen to the right and an outshut in the angle. The service wing at the rear, dated 1742, is likely the original house, and has a later outshut on the north side.

The east front is symmetrical, with three bays. It retains its original sash windows, all complete with glazing bars. The ground floor has tall 24-pane sashes, the first floor has 16-pane sashes, and the second floor has smaller 12-pane sashes. The central doorway is round-headed, with a semi-circular fanlight and a fielded and reeded six-panel door. A large three-storey stairwell wing is located at the rear, with a hipped roof and a large 28-pane sash window on the south side. There is also a two-storey kitchen outshut on the north side of the stairwell wing. The rear, or west, wing has 20th-century windows on the south front, and a stone tablet inscribed with the date 1742. Below this tablet are two shields inscribed with the letters '?B' and 'RB'. A single-storey outshut with a double-Roman lean-to roof is attached to the north side of the rear wing.

Inside, much of the original joinery remains, including panelled doors, architraves, and window shutters. A good open-well staircase rises the full height of the house, featuring stick balusters and a moulded handrail that ramps up to column newels. There is a fireplace in the front, south-east first-floor room, with a simple 19th-century chimney piece and grate; a Victorian chimney piece is in the north-east first floor room, and 20th-century brick fireplaces are on the ground floor. The roof structure includes king-post trusses with tenoned purlins. The rear wing features a large, blocked kitchen fireplace with a timber bressumer.

This is a largely complete Georgian house, with many of its original features still intact.