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Detached four-bay single-storey with dormer attic house, built c.1850, of direct-entry plan type, with gable-fronted porch addition. Pitched roof with straw thatch, barge copings, exposed hazel stretchers to ridge, three rendered chimneystacks to ridge and gables with stepped capping, exposed hazel stretchers to eaves. Pitched slate roof to entrance porch with clay ridge tiles, timber barge and fascia, replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Coursed rubble stone walls with lime-wash finish, ruled-and-lined render to east gable. Square-headed window openings with stone cills and replacement casement windows. Recent opening to rear elevation with uPVC window. Square-headed door opening to east side of entrance porch with timber door. Set back from road opening into front area enclosed by recent timber fence having recent sandstone paving. Rendered milking parlour to west with north gable end to road having plinth for milk churns. Detached four-bay single storey outbuilding to south, having pitched slate roof, central stone chimneystack, lime washed walls to coursed rubble stone with cut stone corners, having sheeted door and two-over-two sliding sash window as side light, and replacement door with boarded sidelight. Further lime-washed rubble stone outbuilding arranged parallel in inner yard.

A middle-sized vernacular house that forms an important part of the county's vernacular tradition. It retains its historic form and traditional fabric, including a thatch roof that is one of the few to survive in the county. The house is part of a well maintained complex with its attendant outbuildings set around a small yard. The group includes a former milking parlour, with a purpose-made plinth at the roadside for the collection of milk churns, a feature of social heritage interest which recalls the manner of co-operative milk production in the early to mid twentieth century. The group makes a strong visual statement in its rural setting and is a reminder of rural life in former times.