Kerswell Green Farmhouse

Kerswell Green Farmhouse is a house, originally a farmhouse, dating to the late Medieval period. It was extended in the early and later 17th century and altered in the 18th and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed with a painted brick front, and has a thatched roof with gabled ends. Brick axial and gable-end stacks are present.

The house has a long, four-bay main range. The two wider central bays represent the hall of the Medieval house. The narrow north bay and the south bay with a gable-end stack were added in the 17th century, and a further unheated wing is said to have been built behind the south bay in the later 17th century. In the 17th century, the hall was floored and a central stack with back-to-back fireplaces was built, dividing it into two rooms. Around the late 18th century, the front of the house was faced in brick, and in the 20th century, bay windows and a porch were added to the front, along with an outshut to the rear.

The east front is asymmetrical, with one storey and an attic. There are three circa 19th-century, three-light casement windows within eyebrow dormers in the attic. The main roof's thatch extends down over two 20th-century bay windows, with a porch between, and another 20th-century bay window to the right of centre, adjoined by a narrow single-storey wing. The rear (west) elevation shows the exposed timber framing, with a projecting wing on the right and a 20th-century single-storey outshut on the left.

The interior features exposed wall framing, ceiling beams and crucks. The north room has a roughly chamfered axial beam and exposed unchamfered joists; a partition to the narrow north bay has been removed. The centre room has a deeply chamfered axial beam with pyramid stops and an over-plastered fireplace. The south room has a chamfered axial beam with cyma stops and a fireplace with an ovolo-moulded timber bressumer. The room in the rear wing has chamfered intersecting beams with cyma stops. Three full cruck trusses are exposed on the ground floor and in the chambers above, with the collars halved onto the principals and the central truss arch-braced with a small collar at the apex. Large exposed purlins are set on the backs of the principals.

According to local repute, Kerswell Green Farmhouse was the home of Edward Winslow, who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 and became Governor of the Plymouth Colony.