Greenbank Farm Farmhouse

This is a farmhouse dating back to the 18th century, built in a T-shaped layout with two gabled sections set at right angles. It is constructed from large blocks of sandstone with quoins (decorative cornerstones), topped with a slate roof. The roof features two yellow brick ridge stacks. The windows are casement windows with horizontal glazing bars, set beneath flat, arched stone lintels detailed with voussoirs (shaped stones) and keystones, and with prominent stone sills. The front of the house, facing east, has a gabled porch in the angle between the two ranges; the porch roof is supported by timber posts with arched bracing and struts to the gable, finished with pendant finials. A part-glazed panelled door with an overlight is set within the porch. To the left is a projecting gable end with a three-light window on the ground floor and a two-light window above. To the right of the porch is a two-light window, with a gabled half-dormer above containing a similar window. Directly adjoining to the right is a single-storey range, dating from the same period, which was formerly a wash-room, with a three-light casement window to the front and no openings to the north gable. The rear, or west, side has a full-width pentice (a covered veranda) with a hipped slate roof supported on timber posts. A former doorway to the washroom has been blocked with stone. In the centre of the main range is a two-light casement window with a plain stone lintel, with a gabled half-dormer above containing a matching window. To its right is a small, narrow light. The pentice roof continues at right angles to the right and has been infilled with 20th-century glazing to form a rear porch. The south side of the east-west range has a central gabled half-dormer, with a two-light casement window beneath, flanked by further windows. A window is also present in the west gable. Adjoining the northwest angle of this range is a former dairy, a single-storey building with an attic constructed from rubble sandstone and covered with a slate roof. The attic was used for cheese-making, and the north side has a gabled attic dormer to the left of centre, containing a two-light casement window. There are two windows below and to the right, with stone lintels and 20th-century small-pane glazing. A late 20th-century garage projects from the far right. The west gable end of the dairy has a planked door with a two-light casement window above, both set within pecked wedge lintels. An irregular lean-to structure is located to the rear, possibly used for coal storage.

At the time of inspection, access to the interior of the house was not possible. Some arched brickwork against the interior north wall of the dairy suggests a previous connection to a horse gin, which was used for grinding corn.