St Lawrence'S

St Lawrence's is a farmhouse, possibly incorporating the remains of a domestic chapel. The building’s core dates to the late 15th or early 16th century, with a significant remodelling in the mid-18th century, followed by later additions and alterations. The exterior is built of roughly coursed slate-stone, roughcast and painted, with the front of the main range slate-hung to the first floor. It has slate roofs, hipped to the main range.

The original building was likely a long range aligned roughly east-west. An 18th-century extension to the front now forms the main range, which has a 3-window front with 16-paned glazing bar sash windows, those to the first floor directly below the eaves. A prominent central 20th-century gabled porch is present. Integral brick stacks are located to the left and right, with a tall painted brick stack to the left and a shutter end stack to the right. A further integral end stack is at the rear right, where it joins the right-hand range, and a stone stack is in the rear roof slope to the left. The right-hand range features 19th-century casement windows to the left and right, and a 20th-century casement directly below the eaves. A 20th-century gabled glazed porch shelters a 4-panel door with glazed top panels, flanked by casement windows.

Inside, the left ground-floor room of the right-hand range has one flat and several chamfered joists. Chamfered joists are also present in the rear left room of the main range, representing the pre-18th-century section. Open fireplaces with chamfered wood lintels and clom ovens are features. A cusped trefoil-headed piscina, located in the front wall of the right ground-floor room, is likely from the 14th century. The roof structure comprises a collar truss roof in 4 bays (including hips) for the 18th-century part, and a late 18th or 19th-century king-post roof to the long range, extending behind the 18th-century addition. The piscina may have been relocated, but a 1447 grant of an indulgence by Bishop Lacy of Exeter suggests a chapel or oratory was associated with a manor house on this site.