The Pant

The Pant is a farmhouse, originally dating back to the 16th century, and subsequently altered. It is constructed of thinly coursed pink and grey sandstone rubble, with stone tile roofs. The main entrance elevation displays the original house to the right, with a projecting stair tower placed in front of the main stack. Four windows are present, two to the left and two to the right of the tower. The windows are largely late 20th-century timber casements, with one reused unglazed window containing two original diamond wooden mullions in a chamfered frame inserted into the added porch over the main door. The stair tower has small windows for the half landings, topped with a lean-to roof. The ground floor to the right features a French door and one and a half blocked windows. A central ridge stack and an end gable stack are also present to the left.

The gable elevation has three small modern windows in the gable wall, along with a door and modern window in the single-storey and attic kitchen wing projecting to the left. A large gable end stack and two roof lights are set into this wing. The rear elevation includes a modern outshut with two small windows, a three-light casement to the left of this, and two smaller casements above. A small casement is positioned in the back of the fireplace of the kitchen wing gable, with another small one to the firestair above.

Entering through the main door leads into a dismantled cross-passage, with the left-hand partition wall removed and the rear blocked by the modern outshut. The original house is accessed through an end entry into a lobby by the stack. The original door has three planks and is set in an ovolo moulded frame with broach stops. To the right of the lobby is the entrance to the added stair, which rises in short, straight stone flights around a solid pier. The hall features ceiling beams with bar-and-runout stops and a timber-framed partition to an inner room. An added room to the left of the entrance has been heavily modernised. The rear kitchen contains a large open fireplace and a firestair to the right. The upper floor has timber-framed partitions. The roof is a principal rafter roof with trenches for purlins, although most of the roof structure has been renewed. While much of the joinery has been replaced, some old floorboards remain upstairs.