Lampits Farmhouse

Lampits Farmhouse is a manor farmhouse dating from the early to mid-16th century, featuring a three-cell main range that underwent alterations around 1600. At the rear, there is an early 17th-century service wing that forms an L-shape. The building is timber framed and roughcast-rendered, topped with a plain tiled roof. It stands two storeys high with an attic and has a continuous jetty at the front. There are five mid-20th-century single-paned casement windows and a central battened plank door. An internal stack with a plain shaft dates from the 20th century, while the parlour cell on the right is heated by a stack against the rear wall. A rear doorway from around 1800 features a six-panel raised and fielded door, complete with an architrave and dentilled pediment.

Inside, the hall has a chamfered cross-beamed ceiling with solid braces to the wall posts, and the joists are concealed by 17th-century plasterwork with moulded borders. The tie beams in the chamber above have long heavy arched braces. A studded first-floor partition between the hall and service cells includes a four-centre arched doorway. The current stack appears to be an insertion from around 1600, possibly replacing a smoke bay in a narrow bay at the opposite end of the hall. There is one stuccoed first-floor fireplace featuring an ovolo-moulded four-centred arch. The roof over the front range is a reconstruction from around 1700 or later, with stepped butt purlins. The rear wing originally had a two-cell form, with on-edge joists and a roof supported by two rows of diminished butt purlins and arched windbraces.