Old Furnace Farmhouse

Old Furnace Farmhouse is a 2-storey gabled house that is five bays long and one room deep, featuring a central doorway. The building is constructed of coursed rubble sandstone, rendered, and has a slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and yellow brick end stacks. All the windows have been replaced, although cast iron lintels were recorded, they are no longer visible. There are first floor doorways from the bank at each end, and the ground floor windows at either end of the main elevation are set within large blocked archways with flattened heads, formed with wrought iron banding. The rear elevation has no windows.

The interior has been refurbished, but some details from the former listing description are reported to still exist. 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 remain. The building features massive cast iron roof trusses that are tied into the wall heads, each in a bow form with one vertical post and two curved braces. These trusses contain sockets for ceiling joists on their underside, and the largely intact barrel-vaulted lath and plaster ceiling remains. The trusses support battens directly for the slates, but later timber purlins and rafters have been added above them.