North Down Farmhouse

North Down Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse dated 1727. It is constructed of ham stone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a thatched roof between coped gables, along with brick end chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and five bays. On the ground floor, there are hollow-chamfered mullioned windows set in chamfered recesses, with two lights in bays 1, 2, and 3, and three lights in bays 4 and 5. Bays 1 and 2 have a continuous string course, bay 3 has a hoodmould, and bays 4 and 5 have labels. The first floor features two-light horizontal-bar casements in bays 1, 2, and 3, and a three-light window in bay 4, while bay 5 is blank. To the right of bay 3 is a 20th-century four-panel door beneath a timber lintol, and there is a straight joint between bays 1 and 2. The west gable has casement windows, and against the east gable is a single-storey extension with a double Roman clay tiled roof, which has a late 20th-century forward projection that matches, along with a small doorway under a coped gable in the angle formed. The interior has not been seen, but it is reported to have deep chamfered beams with step-and-runout stops and a stone newel staircase; only the ground floor has been examined. A datestone engraved "D/1E/l727" is located above a first-floor window.