The Garth Farmhouse

The Garth Farmhouse is an L-shaped house with an entrance front facing east and a secondary front facing south towards the farm buildings. To the west is a lower L-shaped range, probably part of the earlier house, which has been remodelled as a service unit.

The main house presents a symmetrical 3-window east front of 2 storeys with attics, rendered under a slate roof. Tall end stacks of ashlar sandstone rise at each end, each face featuring a blind arch and moulded capstone. An open gabled porch on chamfered timber posts, with decorative openwork barge boards and arched struts, stands reached by 3 slate steps. Inside the porch is a boarded door with studs and strap hinges, topped by an overlight. The windows are moulded wooden 3-light designs with transoms and margin glazing, set beneath flat heads with slate sills. The attic storey contains 3 gabled dormers with plain barge boards, each containing 2-light casements with margin glazing.

A 2-window range adjoins the south gable end, forming a second entrance front. This gable is decorated with openwork barge boards beneath which sits a slate tablet with an arched head inscribed 'Rebuilt by Earl Vane 1870'. Below and offset to the left is a 12-pane horned sash window with a large sill. The 2-window range adjoining to the left has a blue brick end stack. A rendered lean-to porch with slate roof stands to the right of this range, containing a decorative boarded door with overlight. To the left is a 16-pane horned sash window, with 2 x 12-pane sashes aligned above at first-floor level (these sash windows are said to be replacements). Two skylights pierce the roof pitch.

The west gable end features a boarded rear door with 3-pane overlight beneath a gabled porch canopy, offset to the left and opening into the kitchen. The rear windows are mainly 20th-century 2-light wooden casements beneath segmental heads, with a window above the doorway and a small light to the gable. A short linking range to the service unit connects here, featuring a 20th-century cross-window beneath a 2-light casement. The north gable end of the main range has a 12-pane horned sash to the far right of the upper storey, with a narrow gabled bay to its right bearing openwork barge boards, perhaps connected with the staircase, containing a 2-light casement over a 4-pane sash.

The service unit comprises a main range and cross-wing with a slightly lower roof-line. Its front faces south, with the cross-wing to the right where it joins the later block. It is of random stone, rendered to the front, under a slate roof. A stone end stack with brick quoins stands at the left end of the main range; a renewed blue brick stack rises at the north end of the cross-wing. The front displays a 2-light 20th-century wooden casement to each storey, both set beneath segmental heads. The rear, which projects beyond the later block, has openings with segmental brick heads. Doors open to the gable end of the cross-wing and to the main range, with a small light at the far right. An iron casement window occupies the first floor of the gable end, with a small light to the attic.

Inside, the south entrance opens into a stair-hall containing an ornate open-well wooden staircase with turned balusters and decorated tread ends, dated 1872. Encaustic tile floors lay the stair-hall and kitchen to the left. A large fireplace occupies the former service room to the rear of the kitchen, its lintel probably from elsewhere. The main reception room lies to the right of the stair-hall in the south end of the main range, featuring panelled doors, shutters and moulded wooden coving. The wooden fireplace surround was formerly positioned upstairs.