Sunny Vale Farmhouse

Sunny Vale Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 18th century, built of local rubble stone. The exterior is now rendered with a modern hard roughcast finish, with cement dressings, and has Welsh slate roofs with rendered stacks. The building follows a single-depth longhouse plan, incorporating a cross-passage within the former cowhouse, which runs behind the hall stack and a single-storey outshut at the rear. The property is part two storeys and part one storey with an attic. The left-hand section, set down the slope, originally served as a cowhouse and has a lower roofline. It features a modern gabled timber porch, a single window with a 2 + 2 pane casement, and a significant area of blank walling. A steeply pitched roof incorporates a 2 + 2 gabled dormer, ridge tiles, and a small stack indicating a later addition of heating. The main house to the right has three ground-floor windows: a 2-light mullion-and-transom window with 4 + 4 panes, a plain 3 + 3 pane casement window, and a glazed door. A cement band runs along the first floor, matching the eaves line of the left-hand section. The first floor has a 2 + 2 pane half dormer and a 3 + 3 pane casement window. The steeply pitched roof also features ridge tiles and three stacks, including a large original hall stack on the left gable, with smaller stacks centrally and on the right gable which were added later. Modern glazing has been installed.

The rear elevation is rendered and painted white, with small 2 + 2 casement windows and a plain door located at the rear of the cross-passage. A flat-topped dormer is present on the lower section.

The interior has been altered, but the original layout of the cowhouse, hall and unheated inner room is still discernible, as is the cross-passage running behind the hall stack. The stair and upper floor have also been altered. Notably, the original upper cruck roof remains, with principals set into the walls on corbel stones and trenched purlins. An internally revealed 2-light oak framed window, originally lighting the firestair, is present. The left-hand sitting room has a heavy beamed ceiling, though roughly finished, as would be expected for a former cowhouse. The fireplace is clearly a later addition.