Middle Farmhouse

Middle Farmhouse is a one-and-a-half-storey, two-cell house, likely dating from the 17th or 18th century, with a later extension on the south end. The exterior is pebble-dashed and painted, likely over rubble stone, with an artificial stone slate roof. The main entrance front faces away from the road to the east. A projecting gabled porch is on the left, featuring a pointed arched doorway with a plank door. There are two modern hardwood casement windows with three panes to the right of the porch, and two matching gabled eaves dormers above. The roof is steeply pitched with two ridge stacks: a larger, more substantial stack to the south, which may be original with a single flue, and a smaller stack to the north. Weathering suggestive of earlier thatch on the smaller chimney indicates a fairly early addition, likely before the current artificial stone slate roof was installed. The street elevation has undergone little change, with small modern replacement windows and a door in the later extension. A small pointed window with lattice glazing on the north gable is probably an early 19th century alteration.

Inside, the layout has been altered, but evidence suggests the original plan was a single heated room with a dairy on the north side, indicated by the chimney arrangement and the original lack of a window on the road-facing north room. The main room features stop-chamfered ceiling beams with run-out stops, while the secondary room has less well-finished beams. A larder is partitioned off on the west side of the secondary room, entered from the main room and lit by the pointed gable window. The larder doorway has a wooden ventilator above it, likely dating to the early 19th century alongside the window. A baffle entry exists from the porch, but the staircase dates from 1956 and is located within the extension built during the demolition of the adjacent house at that time. The previous location of the stack stair is still visible. The upper floor was originally two rooms but has been converted into a central corridor. The principal rafter roof is well-finished with chamfers on the principals. The porch interior contains a 17th century triangular roof truss, halved and pegged at the apex.