Village Farm

This is a substantial mid-16th century farmhouse. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with a steeply pitched roof; the south side is clad in heavy slates and the north side in Welsh slates. The main facade has a four-window alignment, oriented east to west, with four rubble stone stacks – two axial and two gable – indicating the original layout.

The south elevation features restored two-light round-headed mullioned windows with dressed stone surrounds and hoodmoulds, four to both the ground and first floors. A later square-headed timber door and frame are positioned slightly towards the east end of the elevation. A later gabled, single-storey extension projects from the west end of the main range. A square-headed stairlight is situated at ground and first floor levels where the main range meets the later extension.

The north elevation incorporates a single-storey lean-to outshut built of limestone rubble, extending across the central two-thirds of the rear. This outshut has three casement windows on its ground floor; two are set within reused dressed stone jambs and utilize round-headed dressed stone window-heads as lintols. Another two-light, round-headed mullioned window with a hoodmould is located on the east side of the outshut. First-floor windows on the north side consist of multi-paned casements with exposed lintols. The east gable has a small four-paned casement at high level and the west gable has two casements to the ground and two smaller ones to the attic level. Various rooflights have been inserted into both the front and rear roofslopes. A mounting block is present on the east elevation.

The house originally had a three-cell plan, with a central hall flanked by a kitchen to the west and a parlour to the east. Entry is from a doorway on the south elevation into a lobby between the hall and parlour. The parlour retains exposed ceiling beams of substantial section with broad chamfers and round stops; the joists are also chamfered with straight cut stops and fillet. The central hall chamber features a dressed stone fireplace on the west side, with a bake oven recessed into the south jamb under the stair. It also has three exposed chamfered and stopped beams and a lateral stone stair leading to the north-east corner. A doorway in the west wall leads to the kitchen, which includes a large fireplace and cross-corner stone stairs on the south-east corner, plus four centred stone doorways on the north and south elevations - one leading to a modern extension and the other into the rear lean-to.

The western first-floor chamber has a fireplace on the west wall with a cross-corner stair on the south-east corner providing access to the attic above the west cell. The central and east chambers are accessed only via the ground floor stair in the central hall; the central chamber has a stair in the north-west corner, and the east chamber is accessed by a direct stone stair to its north-west corner, with an open fire on the east elevation.