farm house

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1880, with attached flanking outbuildings and lean-to extensions (east and west). Pitched artificial slate with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings with two-over-two timber sliding sash windows and stone sills. Square-headed door opening with timber battened door. Enclosed by rendered walls and piers south with cast-iron railings. Flanking outbuildings comprising pitched roofed blocks with single-pitched end blocks set at right angles. Pitched corrugated-iron roofs, limewashed rubble stone walls and timber battened doors to openings. Additional outbuilding to south, set facing house on opposite side of road, comprising three-bay single-storey building having rubble stone walls and flight of external steps to gable.

This roadside farming complex provides a valuable insight into a farming tradition which is becoming increasingly rare. Surprisingly formal in composition, the group is an attractive addition to the surrounding area. The considered symmetry of the flanking outbuildings, perpendicular end blocks, and the ruined outbuilding set facing the house, demonstrates a formality which is more usually associated with architect designed country houses.