Cheshire Farm

Cheshire Farm is a house incorporating a 17th-century core with a mid-19th-century addition, resulting in an L-shaped plan. The original 17th-century house faces west and is two units wide with one-and-a-half storeys. It is constructed of whitewashed random stone under a slate roof, with a brick end stack to the right. Raised rubble stone copings and moulded kneelers are present on the gables, along with moulded stone eaves. The entrance is slightly offset to the right of centre, behind a 20th-century shallow lean-to porch with wooden lights and a glazed door. A small nine-pane wooden window is to the right, above which is a gabled half-dormer containing a tall wooden window with a fanlight. The north gable end has a wide two-light wooden casement offset slightly to the right; a small-pane two-light casement with fan-light sits below, both with timber lintels. The south gable end is roughcast, featuring a shallow lean-to conservatory with small-pane wooden glazing on a brick base. The rear elevation, to the left of the later block, has a nine-pane wooden window and a gabled half-dormer containing a two-light wooden casement with a fanlight.

The mid-19th-century block is two storeys high with three windows, facing north. It is constructed of whitewashed brick under a slate roof, with wide boarded eaves and a brick end stack to the right. The entrance is offset slightly to the left of centre and features a wooden doorcase with a panelled door and a three-pane overlight. Windows flanking the entrance and those to the upper storey are 12-pane hornless sashes with wedge lintels and sills; wooden shutters are fitted to the ground floor windows. The east gable end is rendered with a 20th-century window to the upper left. The rear elevation has a moulded roundel in the upper right corner; a full-width brick lean-to extends along the lower storey, featuring half-glazed wooden double doors offset to the left, small-pane wooden windows with fan-lights, and a large four-light bow window to the right. The lean-to is raised to two storeys in the centre and on the left, forming flat-roofed blocks with small-pane wooden glazing.

Inside the 17th-century house, to the right is a hall with a ceiling featuring deeply chamfered cross-beams with run-out stops to the centre, and plain joists. The beam is engraved with the date 1758, although it appears to be earlier, and also bears an engraved “8”. A fireplace is located at the south end, with a curved, roughly S-shaped wooden lintel, likely reused. A winding staircase sits to the left of the fireplace. The kitchen to the left has a plain cross-beam to the ceiling. Property has group value context.