Loanknowe

Loanknowe is a farmhouse that likely dates from the later 18th century and has undergone some additions and alterations. It is a two-storey, three-bay building with an originally rectangular plan and a two-storey wing at the rear, creating an L-shape. There are single-storey additions at the back that connect to other ancillary structures. The exterior is constructed of whinstone rubble with cream sandstone dressings, featuring a moulded eaves course and narrow quoin strips. The building has droved long and short sandstone quoins and surrounds for the openings, with some tooled sandstone relieving arches and projecting cills.

On the southeast elevation, there is a timber panelled door in the centre at ground level, topped by a three-pane fanlight, and a single window above it on the first floor. Each flanking bay also has a single window on both floors. The southwest elevation shows the main two-bay house with single windows on both floors in each bay, and a small attic light slightly off-centre to the right. The lower two-storey wing to the left has irregular fenestration.

The northwest elevation features the main house with a full-height stair window at the centre, and single windows on both floors in the left bay. The projecting two-storey wing to the right has a single window at ground level, with single-storey additions to the left. The northeast elevation displays the main two-bay house with single windows on both floors (the upper windows are painted imitations), and a small attic light off-centre to the left. The recessed lower two-storey wing to the right has a bipartite window at ground level, an aligned painted imitation window on the first floor, and single-storey additions to the right with a window above.

The windows predominantly feature 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case style. The roof is covered with purple-grey slate and has stone skews. There is a sandstone apex stack on the southwest, a rebuilt brick stack on the northeast, and a brick ridge stack at the rear, along with various circular flues.

The interior was not seen in 1998. The boundary walls consist of harl-pointed rubble sandstone that partially encloses the site. A five-step mounting stone is present, and there are chamfered, square-plan coursed cream sandstone gatepiers flanking the entrance, topped with shallow pyramidal caps and a decorative iron gate. There are modern piers and a gate for a later entrance.