Downhill Farmhouse

Downhill Farm was listed Grade II in 1977 with the following description:
'House and hind's cottage, now one dwelling. Rendered, with Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys; 4 bays. House at east: central door in architrave, 3 sash windows. Cottage at west, of one bay, has sash windows, the ground floor one wider. Roof has flat stone coping, end brick chimneys and chimney between house and cottage.'
It is the only farm in the Borough with substantial remains of its original buildings intact. The farmhouse and adjoining outbuildings, the lime burning kilns, Downhill Cottages and Downhill House are all Grade II listed buildings. The outbuildings are of magnesian limestone construction with pantile roofs. Close to the farmstead is a disused magnesian limestone quarry, part of which is designated as a site of Special Scientific Interest. The farm contains a virtually complete restored wheel house with machinery attached to a two storey threshing barn. Restoration work started in 1987 to the threshing barn, gingang and storage barn.