Outbuilding 3 Metres To South West Of Litle Clubworthy Farmhouse

This outbuilding, likely of uncertain original purpose and possibly a smoking chamber, probably dates back to the 17th century. It is constructed of stone rubble and cob, with a rag slate roof featuring gable ends. The building has a roughly rectangular plan, originally divided into three sections, with some parts of the floor remaining.

The exterior is a long, low building located to the southwest of Little Clubworthy Farmhouse. A 20th-century lean-to outshut is on the left side and a chamfered and stopped granite doorframe from the 17th century is near the center. A 18th- or 19th-century lean-to outshut, made of stone rubble and cob with a rag slate roof, is at the rear right. Several openings on the front and rear of the building were blocked in the 18th and 19th centuries. The wall to the rear right of the presumed smoking chamber has been rebuilt, likely in the 19th century. The right-hand end wall has been refaced with stone rubble externally and the gable end rebuilt with concrete blocks.

Inside, the presumed smoking chamber is two bays deep, featuring a massive timber lintel spanning the building’s width and supported by two ashlar jambs. Although the roof truss above was replaced in the 18th or 19th century, evidence of charred and sooty cob is visible on the inner face of the cob wall above the lintel. The central section has 19th-century floor joists and remnants of a likely 19th-century staircase at the rear, leading to the first floor on the left. The mortices in the cross wall and cross beam indicate that the earlier upper flooring supported rectangular-section floor joists, likely after 1700. Heavy 17th-century floor joists support the floor above the left-hand section. The interior cob walls show sooty areas in places. The roof structure above the left-hand section retains circa 17th-century principals, with a later roof structure from the 18th and 19th centuries above the center and the presumed smoking chamber to the right.