Greenbank Farm Farmhouse

Farmhouse of one-and-a-half storeys with 2 gabled ranges at right angles forming a T-shaped plan. Constructed of large blocks of sandstone with quoins under slate roofs with 2 yellow brick ridge stacks. Casement windows with horizontal glazing bars under flat-arched pecked stone lintels with voussoirs and keystones, and with pecked stone sills. The front faces E with gabled porch in the angle of the 2 ranges; slate roof supported on timber posts with arched brace and struts to gable with pendant finials. Part-glazed panelled door with overlight. To the L is the advanced gable end with 3-light window to ground floor and 2-light window above. To the R of the porch is a 2-light window with a gabled half-dormer above containing a similar window. Adjoining to the R is a contemporary single-storey unit, a former wash-room, with 3-light casement to front and no openings to N gable end. To the rear (W) side is a full-width pentice with hipped slate roof supported on timber posts. A former doorway to the washroom has been blocked in stone. To the centre of the main range is a 2-light casement with plain stone lintel, with a gabled half dormer above. To its R is a very small light. The pentice roof continues at right angles to the R and is infilled with C20 glazing to form a rear porch. The S side of the E-W range has a central gabled half-dormer, with a 2-light casement beneath flanked by further windows. Window to W gable. Adjoining the NW angle of this range is a former dairy, a single-storey range with attic constructed of rubble sandstone under a slate roof. The attic was used for cheese-making and the N side has a gabled attic dormer L of centre containing a 2-light casement. Two windows below and R, with stone lintels and C20 small-pane glazing. Late C20 garage projecting to far R. The W gable end of the dairy has a planked door with 2-light casement above, both with pecked wedge lintels. Irregular lean-to to rear, perhaps for storing coal.

No access to interior of house at time of inspection. Some arched brickwork against the interior N wall of the dairy is thought to have been connected with a horse gin, used for grinding corn.