Old Furnace Farmhouse

A 2-storey gabled house five bays long and one room deep, with a central doorway. Of coursed rubble sandstone, rendered, with a slate roof, terracotta ridge tiles and yellow brick end stacks. All the windows are replacements; cast iron lintels recorded though no longer visible. There is a first floor doorway from the bank at each end. Gound floor windows at either end of main elevation are set within large blocked archways with flattened heads, formed with wrought iron banding. No windows to the rear elevation.

Interior refurbished though details in former list description as follows are reported to survive. Underneath the straight central stair the archway of a former spiral staircase can be seen. In the northern upstairs room, the banister and head of another spiral stair survive. Massive cast iron roof trusses are tied into the wall heads. These are in a bow form each with one vertical post and two curved braces. They contain sockets for ceiling joists on their underside, and the barrel-vaulted lath and plaster ceiling largely remains. The trusses carry battens directly to take the slates, but later timber purlins and rafters have been placed above them.