East Gooseham Farmhouse

House, originally a farmhouse, with origins in the 17th century, and alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The house is built of whitewashed stone, partly rendered, with a thatched roof which is half-hipped at the right end and hipped at the left end. There is one brick chimney, a massive rendered chimney, and brick arches to the ground floor windows. The original layout was probably a three-room plan with a through passage, with a former heated parlour at the higher end now a single-storey flat-roofed projection. A former outbuilding adjoining the left end has been incorporated into the house. A short, rear gabled projection is also present. The house is two storeys high, with a three-window asymmetrical front and an off-centre entrance. The section of the former through passage has been rebuilt, resulting in a higher roofline, while the roof over the former outbuilding at the lower end is lower. A 2-light 19th-century casement window with 6 panes per light is on the ground floor to the left. A small fixed window, formerly a pantry window, is to the left of the front door. A 16-pane 19th-century sash window is on the ground floor to the right. A 3-light 20th-century casement window with 2 panes per light is on the first floor to the left, and other first-floor windows are similar 2-light casements. The thatch is slightly eyebrowed over the first-floor windows. A single-storey store room at the right end has a corrugated iron roof. Inside, the entrance is into the former through passage, with a wide rear door opposite the front door. The ground floor room to the right of the former passage contains a massive fireplace with a clom oven and an unhewn fireplace beam. The ground floor room to the left of the former passage also features a massive fireplace with a clom oven. A late 17th-century staircase with turned balusters is located to the left of the former passage, with balusters on one side only. Principals are visible in the first-floor rooms, and some roof timbers are said to have been replaced when the corrugated iron roof was replaced with thatch. The store room to the right was previously two-storey with a gable end chimney.