Innage Farmhouse and attached outhouse

Innage Farmhouse and Attached Outhouse

This farmhouse is constructed of roughly squared and coursed red and grey sandstone with Welsh slate roofs, while the attached outhouse is pantiled. The building is predominantly two storeys with attics, though part of it rises to only one storey. It comprises a main hall-and-cross-wing range with a later wing projecting forward from the main elevation. Behind this stands an earlier single-cell building, now forming part of a rear open courtyard which is partially filled by a modern single-storey kitchen. The original cross-wing has been extended in the 19th century by the two-storey outhouse.

The main entrance elevation displays four bays. On the left stands the gabled cross-wing, which features a 4-light window below and a 3-light window above, though both are heavily obscured by creeper making details uncertain. These are flat-topped mullioned windows of 17th-century type. A large external stack rises on the left-hand return, though the shaft has been rebuilt. Next comes the entrance bay, a slightly projecting two-storey gabled porch containing an almost flat-headed doorway with a four-plank door in a chamfered surround, and a 2-light window in the gable above. The third bay is narrow, with a 4-light window to the hall and a 20th-century 2-light casement above. The later wing projects to the right and features a 4-light window in the return, with 4-light windows above and below in the gable, all having arched lights and dripmoulds. The return to the right has modern plastic French casements and a large external stack bearing only a stove pipe rather than a chimney, with a small stair window to its right.

Behind this wing stands a small independent block, built before the wing was constructed in the 17th century. It may originally have served as a semi-detached kitchen or possibly as a first-floor hall from the late medieval period. The ground floor is masked by a greenhouse with modern door and window, while the upper floor has a 3-light window. The gable end contains a window looking into an undercroft, with a large corbelled stack rising above it from the gable in a rebuilt shaft.

The rear elevation of the hall block displays a modern casement on each floor, followed by a large external stack with a rebuilt brick shaft. The base of this is masked by a late 20th-century single-storey kitchen with standard joinery and flat felt roof, which fills the corner between the stack and the cross-wing. A further upper-floor window is present as described elsewhere. The outhouse adjoins with a lower roof line, featuring a door with a modern window above, and otherwise blank walling. Its plain gable, visible on another front, is partially masked by a lean-to shed but contains a stable door and hayloft door above. This meets the remaining elevation of the cross-wing, which has two modern casements above and below, with the ground-floor right retaining a stone frame while others are alterations, plus a modern glazed door. The large external stack described previously concludes this elevation.

Internally, the entrance originally led to a cross-passage, now incorporated into the hall following removal of the partition, though the line of the former wall remains visible. The hall fireplace on the rear wall is a modern rebuilding with a large oak lintel. The ceiling beams have been reinforced at their ends with modern brackets. The former kitchen to the left has a reconstructed fireplace with an oak lintel and a Victorian brick oven positioned to its left. Two stone spiral stairs are present, alongside numerous 17th-century plank doors with shaped heads and a 16th-century example with 4-centred head and moulded frame leading into the later wing. This room features a lateral fireplace with a massive stone lintel and relieving arch above it, and is accessed through a chamfered stone door surround. The roof structure was not observed. The small formerly detached block is featureless both in its half-cellar and upper room, where the fireplace is hidden, though a large stack is evident externally.