Cheshire Farm

The original C17 house faces W, the mid C19 block added at R-angles and facing N, resulting in an L-shaped plan. The earlier house is 2-unit and of one-and-a-half storeys, constructed of white-washed random stone under a slate roof with brick end stack to R. Raised rubble stone copings and moulded kneelers to gables, moulded stone eaves. Entrance offset slightly R of centre with glazed door within a C20 shallow lean-to porch, half-glazed with wooden lights and door. Small 9-pane wooden window R, above which is a gabled half-dormer containing a tall wooden window with fanlight. The N gable end has a wide 2-light wooden casement offset slightly to R; gable has small-pane 2-light casement with fan-light; timber lintels. S gable end is roughcast; shallow lean-to conservatory with wooden small-pane glazing on a brick base. The rear, to L of later block, has a 9-pane wooden window, above which is a gabled half-dormer containing a 2-light wooden casement with fan-light. The C19 block is 2-storey 3-window with entrance offset slightly L of centre. Constructed of white-washed brick under a slate roof with wide boarded eaves; brick end stack to R. Entrance has a wooden doorcase containing a panelled door with 3-pane overlight. Windows flanking and to upper storey are 12-pane hornless sashes with wedge lintels and sills; wooden shutters to ground floor windows. The E gable end is rendered with C20 window to upper L. Rear has moulded roundel to upper R. It has a full-width brick lean-to against lower storey, with half-glazed wooden double doors offset L of centre, small-pane wooden windows with fan-lights, and a large 4-light bow window to R. Lean-to raised to 2 storeys to centre and L forming flat roofed blocks, with small-pane wooden glazing.

The C17 house has hall to R and kitchen to L. The hall has a ceiling with deeply chamfered cross-beam with cut stops to centre, and plain joists. The beam is engraved with a date of 1758, but the beam itself appears earlier; there is also an engraved 8. Fireplace to S end with curved, roughly S-shaped wooden lintel, probably reused from elsewhere. Winding stairs to L of fireplace. Kitchen to L has plain cross-beam to ceiling.