Quixwood Farmhouse

Quixwood Farmhouse is an early 19th-century house with a later 2-storey wing dated 1872, along with subsequent alterations and additions. Originally a plain, classical-style, rectangular house of two storeys and three bays, it now forms a T-plan with the addition of a 2-storey, 3-bay rectangular wing. A single-bay wing extends beyond this, with a lean-to addition to the front and a single-storey wing to the rear. The construction is of coursed and whitewashed render, with droved and polished sandstone dressings. A raised base course is present, along with narrow strip quoins, sandstone margins, projecting cills, and a pilastered doorpiece. It is set within a surrounding walled garden.

The northeast (entrance) elevation features a step leading to a timber-panelled door, centrally located on the ground floor of the 1872 wing. Above this door is a plate glass fanlight, flanked by pilasters, a plain frieze, a cornice, and a blocking course. A single window is positioned at the first floor above the door. Single windows are present at both ground and first floor levels in the flanking bays. An older, gabled, two-bay wing is advanced to the outer left, with single windows on both floors in each bay, and a small attic light offset to the left of the centre. A single window is set at ground floor level in a lean-to addition to the outer right, with a recessed window above it.

The southeast (side) elevation exhibits three-light corniced, canted windows at ground floor level in the bays to the outer left and right, with single windows in all three bays at the first floor.

The southwest (rear) elevation shows the original house with a small attic light offset to the right of the centre, and a single window at both ground and first floor levels in the bay to the left. The 1872 wing features single windows at both floors in the bay projecting to the right (breaking the eaves at the first floor), and in the bay to the left. A further single windows are present at both floors in a lower, two-storey wing to the outer left.

The windows are timber sash and case, with plate glass and 12- and 16-pane glazing. Grey slate covers the roofs, with raised stone skews and predominantly replacement rainwater goods. Unusually shouldered apex stacks have been rebuilt in brick to the original house, while the 1872 wing has a banded brick apex stack. A banded wallhead stack with a dentilled cornice is located at the rear, accompanied by various circular cans.

The interior was not inspected in 1997.

A near rectangular-plan walled garden surrounds the house, with coped rubble walls, some of which are faced with red brick. The site is enclosed by coped rubble boundary walls to the northwest. Stop-chamfered, square-plan sandstone gatepiers with platformed pyramidal caps flank the entrance, accompanied by decorative iron gates.