Resugga Farmhouse

Resugga Farmhouse is a granite-built farmhouse, now a house, dating from the late 16th or early 17th century with significant later additions and alterations. The main structure is of granite rubble with the front, part of the left side, and rear rendered and roughcast. It has a slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends.

The house was originally built on a 2-room plan with a through passage, comprising a hall to the left and a lower end room to the right, both heated by separate stacks. Around the mid-17th century, an L-plan wing was added to the front left, containing a room at the upper end of the hall and a projecting parlour to the front with its own stack. At the same time, an unheated single-storey outshut with loft was built to the rear of the lower end room as a dairy; this was reduced to a single storey in the late 20th century. In the early 18th century, a rear wing of 2-room plan was added to the left, with gable ends to front and rear. Each room was heated by its own stack, and a small closet leads off the front room at first-floor level. Between the early and mid-19th centuries, the room at the upper end of the hall was remodelled as a stair hall with an open-well stair, and an L-plan addition was made to the rear of the rear wing, enclosing a service courtyard. This comprises a single room heated from a stack and has a single-storey range of sheds attached. Between the mid and late 19th century, the original hall was remodelled with the front window probably enlarged and an alcove created in the wall backing onto the passage.

Externally, the main range is of 2 storeys with an asymmetrical 3-window front. The ground floor has 20th-century sashes (16-pane to the left, 12-pane and 16-pane to the right) and a 19th-century 4-panelled door second from the left. The first floor has two late 19th-century 6-pane sashes to the left and a 20th-century 20-pane sash to the right. The front wing to the left is 2-storey with its inner side rendered, featuring a 20th-century 16-pane sash at ground floor and a 20th-century 20-pane sash at first floor. The gable end displays an external stack and an early 19th-century nowy-headed slate sundial fixed to the wall at upper level. The left side has two buttresses to the front wing; to the left stands a mid-19th-century stair light with a round arch and margin glazing beneath a small gable. Stepped to the left is the 18th-century wing of 2 storeys, rendered, with a small 2-light casement at ground floor and a 19th-century margin-glazed sash with gabled dormer at first floor. A single-storey lean-to in rubble extends to the left, featuring a 4-pane casement at ground floor and a 20th-century single light at first floor. The rear wing's gable end has an external stack with a curved oven at the base and a 20th-century first-floor window to the left. The wing is built into the bank to the rear. The right end of the main range has a large external stack with a small single-storey privy attached and a 20th-century 2-light casement at first floor. To the right stands the dairy outshut with hipped end roof and door, a 20th-century 2-light window to the rear, and a single light at the inner side.

The rear of the main house features the rear doorway to the passage, constructed in granite with hollow-chamfered detail, a 4-centred arch with butterfly-shaped carved stops, recessed spandrels and dripstone, and a 19th-century 4-panelled door. The external stack to the hall is visible to the right. The rear wing to the right has a small single light at ground floor and a small single light set into the corner at first floor lighting the closet. To the right is a 20th-century door and a 20th-century 20-pane sash at ground floor, with a 19th-century 16-pane sash at first floor. The rear wing is returned by a 2-storey 19th-century addition, with a 20th-century stable-type door at ground floor and a 20-pane sash, both with cambered stone arches. The first floor has a 20th-century 20-pane sash and 4-squared pigeon holes with slate perches. The rear is partly roughcast. Attached to the right by a short screen wall with a doorway is a range of single-storey sheds with a monopitch roof, built in stone rubble and cob, with doorways facing the service yard.

Internally, the through passage is granite paved, with a 19th-century panelled partition wall to the right serving the lower end room and a stud partition wall to the left serving the hall. The hall is ceiled with a mid-19th-century slate marbled chimneypiece. The lower end room has a granite paved floor and roughly hewn chamfered beams. The fireplace is constructed in stone rubble with a cloam oven to the rear left fitted with a cast iron door. A straight stair was inserted in the rear of the room. A doorway to the rear leads into the dairy, retaining one mid-17th-century jamb that is ovolo-moulded with bar and scroll stop. The dairy has a granite paved floor and granite sink. The roof over the main range retains the main trusses with dovetailed collars, halved and pegged at the apex of the principal rafters, though other members have been removed. The end room to the left is the 19th-century stair hall, featuring an open-well stair with stick balusters and moulded handrail. In the front wing, the ground-floor room retains half the granite surround for the 17th-century fireplace, which has a 4-centred arch with recessed spandrels bearing roundels. At first floor, the room in the front wing has an early 19th-century 2-panelled door with painted graining and an early 18th-century wooden bolection-moulded chimneypiece. In the rear wing, the ground-floor room has 19th-century ceiling beams and an 18th-century corner cupboard with shaped shelves; a mantel over the fireplace features shaped brackets. At first floor, the closet has a 2-panelled door and shelves. Both rooms at first floor have 19th-century 4-panelled doors; the inner room has an early 18th-century suspended plaster ceiling with a moulded cornice and modillions. Remains of wallpaper were found in the house depicting scenes from nursery rhymes, probably dating to the early or mid-19th century.