Ludwell Farmhouse And Attached Barn

A late 16th-century farmhouse, extended in the 19th century, now a house. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with a gabled stone slate roof and brick end stacks. The original plan comprised two units, with a later 18th-century two-storey rear wing and an 1876 extension to the left. The front has a symmetrical four-window range, with a mid-19th century six-panelled door under a bracketed flat hood. The ground floor features a flat stone arch over a mid-19th century one-light window in the outer bays and a pair of 2-light casements above, one set within a 16th-century hollow-moulded stone architrave and the other within a mid-19th century architrave. Other windows are late 16th-century two-light hollow-moulded stone-mullioned windows with pointed arches. A mid-19th century gabled roof dormer has a pointed-arched 2-light casement. The rear features a similar late 16th-century two-light window and a hollow-moulded pointed-arched doorway. The 1876 extension is of matching materials with brick dressings and has a 4-centred arched doorway. Inside, the room to the left retains plank shutters with strap hinges, likely 17th century, quartered moulded beams, stop-chamfered joists with run-out stops, and a moulded segmental-arched fireplace. A room to the right has an 18th-century moulded cornice and beam. A first-floor room to the right displays late 16th/early 17th-century panelling, while rooms are divided by a late 16th-century close-studded timber partition. The roof is late 16th-century, incorporating a queen-strut truss to the right and two collar trusses with pointed-arched windbraces to the left. An attached barn, of similar materials, stands to the right of the farmhouse.