Carlops Mains

Carlops Mains is a 1804-dated, two-storey, three-bay, rectangular farmhouse with a gabled front. The house is constructed of roughly coursed stonework and features a pedimented doorway and roll-moulded skewputts. Three smaller windows are set close to the eaves on the first floor, all with astragals. A timber-panelled door is centrally positioned, topped by a scroll-bracketed moulded pediment featuring a fluted frieze, a dated panel, and rose motifs. Round-arch windows are present at the first floor level within the gable ends. A 19th-century, single-storey lean-to addition returns to the northwest angle. The farmhouse has predominantly 12-pane glazing to its timber sash and case windows, with 9-pane glazing to the upper floor. It has a grey slate roof, gable end stacks with clay cans, coped skews with roll-moulded skewputts, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Carlops Mains occupies a prominent, elevated location and is a notable example of provincial classical architecture, distinguished by its dated pedimented doorway, scrolled skewputts, diminutive upper-floor windows, and round-arched gable ends. The adjacent quarried rock outcrop, known as Carlins Loup, and the associated two-storey barn contribute to the building's setting. The barn, likely dating from the 18th century and heightened in the 19th, is a rectangular rubble building built into sloping ground, with dressed margins, a pitched corrugated-iron roof, a large sliding timber door to the south elevation flanked by small windows, and ashlar skewputts. Carlops Mains is said to have been built as an inn and was formerly known as Rock Farm and Carlins Mains. The village of Carlops was founded in 1784 as a cotton-weaving settlement and later became a health resort; it retains its traditional character.