Limerstone Farmhouse Including Brewhouse

Limerstone Farmhouse, which includes a brewhouse, is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century. It is constructed from Isle of Wight stone rubble with ashlar quoins and features a hipped roof covered in 20th-century tiles, along with red brick stacks. The building is L-shaped and has two storeys with three windows that are not arranged regularly. On the first floor, there are two triple casements with stone mullions, while the third window has an early 20th-century wooden architrave. The ground floor features a central four-light stone mullioned window with a stone hood moulding. The left-hand window retains a 17th-century stone hood moulding but has a 19th-century frame, and the right-side window has an 18th-century stone architrave with a later casement. There is a cambered-headed stone doorcase.

The left side elevation includes one 17th-century mullioned window for the main house and another on the first floor of the wing. Inside, the farmhouse has beams with three-inch chamfers and lamb's tongue stops. The lounge contains late 16th-century or early 17th-century panelling and cocks head hinges. A late 16th-century oak board painted with text was discovered beneath the floorboards during restoration in 1884, which reads: "Flee sinfull lies flee unkind speeche, Ye seeke the thing that is above thy reache And as thou woldst with that others do to thee So do to them, let work and deed agree."

In the mid-17th century, an oratory for Black Canons was founded on this site by a member of the Tichborne family, who owned this tithing of the Manor of Colbourne from the mid-12th century to the mid-18th century. Attached to the south of the farmhouse is an 18th-century brewhouse, which is a single storey built of Isle of Wight stone rubble with some ironstone and a peg-tiled roof, featuring one brick chimneystack and end quoins. The south side of the brewhouse has one cambered triple casement, a cambered doorway, a triangular buttress, and two circular iron ties. There are casements at the rear, and the interior includes a brick fireplace and a queen strut roof with a ridgepiece.