The Home Farmhouse And Garden And Yard Wall To South East

The Home Farmhouse, along with its garden and yard wall to the southeast, dates from the early to mid-18th century, although it may have been a remodelling of an older house. The structure is built of stone rubble and cob, featuring slate hanging on the front. It has a slurried scantle slate roof with brick chimneys positioned slightly back from the gable ends, and an additional chimney on the side wall of a later wing at the rear right. The original layout consisted of two rooms flanking a cross passage that leads to the stair. The right-hand room was originally a hall or kitchen with a large hearth that is mostly blocked. In the early 19th century, a one-room parlour wing was added to the rear of the right-hand room, followed by a later 19th-century outshut that fills the angle behind the left-hand room.

The farmhouse is two storeys high and features a nearly symmetrical three-window front facing southeast, with the openings grouped towards the left. The doorway, which has a gabled hood, is centrally located between the windows and features a ledged door. To the left of the doorway is a 12-pane two-light casement, while to the right is a wider opening with a three-light casement. Above the door, there is a two-light casement, and the first floor has 18th-century 12-pane horizontal sliding sashes with thick glazing bars and original crown glass on both sides.

Inside, the farmhouse retains its original T-stair, with a longer main flight. There is an interesting 18th-century door with three panels leading to the left-hand room, and a dresser in the right-hand room that may be original to the house but has been repositioned. The two original ground floor rooms have bowtell moulded ceiling beams and slate-flagged floors. The parlour at the rear right has window shutters, and in the service room to the rear left, there is a sill or head of a reused mullioned window serving as a threshold stone. Many stones from the 16th to 17th centuries have been reused in the adjoining barn to the left (southwest).

The garden and yard wall is constructed of mixed rubble with granite jambstones for the gate-piers, topped with low-pitched granite copings. The gate-piers to the yards once featured moulded caps with ball finials from the late 17th to early 18th century, as seen in photographs from 1952. The Home Farmhouse is a picturesque, long, low vernacular house set within an unspoiled 19th-century farmyard complex.