farm house — TOORARD [KILM. BY.]

Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched farmhouse, extant 1894. Now disused. Part mesh-covered pitched reed or rye straw thatch roof on collared timber construction with remains of exposed stretchers to degraded ridge having exposed scallops, rendered dwarf chimney stack having stringcourse below capping, concrete or rendered coping to gables, and remains of exposed stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Limewashed rendered battered walls over coursed rubble limestone construction with hammered limestone flush quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills[?], and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Square-headed opposing door openings with rough hewn limestone lintels framing timber boarded doors. Interior including kitchen retaining hearth with rusticated surround, opposing doors now missing, and timber boarded vaulted ceiling; parlour (south-west) retaining timber surrounds to window openings framing timber boarded splayed reveals, and timber boarded vaulted ceiling; and bedroom (north-east) retaining hearth with rough hewn lintel. Set in unkempt grounds perpendicular to road with rendered piers to perimeter having segmental capping supporting flat iron "farm gate".