house

Detached four-bay two-storey vernacular house, built c.1870, with single-storey extension to rear and flat-topped windbreak to entrance. Lobby-entry plan. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Pebble-dashed walls to first floor and rear and smooth rendered to ground and gables, with render quoins and plinth to front. Square-headed openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with stone sills to front elevation and replacement uPVC windows to rear. Former five-bay single-storey vernacular house with loft, built c.1800, to southwest, now used as farm building and having lean-to extension to south. Pitched slate roof with carved timber bargeboards, windbreak with lean-to slate roof, rubble sandstone walls, two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with stone sills and retaining interior features including wide hearth with iron crane and wheel bellows. Single-storey rubble outbuildings with pitched slate roofs to site.

This layout of this complex of buildings, comprising the original house and outbuildings ranged to form a courtyard, and the later two-storey house constructed adjacent, shows the typical historical development of rural farmyards in the local vernacular idiom. The older house and outbuildings contain intact original features, including the fireplace with bellows and crane and the later house provides interest to the local roadscape.