Old Compton

Old Compton is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It dates from the late 16th century to early 17th century, with a left gabled bay that may be part of an earlier structure and a late 17th-century one-bay block on the right. The building features roughcast over a timber frame on the right side and coursed limestone rubble on the left. It has a thatched roof and a brick stack, forming an L-plan layout. The house is one storey with an attic and has a four-window range. There is a 20th-century door and casements, along with a 20th-century two-storey extension at the rear left that matches the style and materials of the original building. Inside, there are chamfered beams throughout, with chamfered bressumers above open stone fireplaces. The right side wall of the original front range exposes square timber framing. The right side of the stack features a two-bay queen-post roof with clasped purlins, and there are carved brackets supporting a chamfered beam in the right extension.