Aarons

A farmhouse, now a private house with an attached barn, dating from the early 17th century, with remodelling in the early 18th century and an extension in the early 19th century. The building is constructed of stone rubble with granite quoins and has a rag slate roof with gable ends. Brick end stacks are present, as is a brick shaft to a front lateral stack.

The building has a rectangular plan, formed by the original house to the left and the addition of a barn on the right-hand gable end in the early 19th century. The original house follows a 2-room and central-entrance plan; the left-hand room has an end stack with a clay oven, and the right-hand room has a front lateral stack. A central entrance likely originally had a cross or through passage with a circa late 19th century framed imperial stair flanked by circa early 18th century tall timber screens. A first-floor bedroom on the right is heated by a gable end stack. In the early 19th century, a lean-to with service rooms was added across the rear, and a bank barn was added to the right-hand gable end, likely with shippons on the ground floor and a loft or threshing floor above, accessible from the rear where the ground rises.

The front of the house has an asymmetrical 3-window facade. The ground floor windows include a circa early 19th century brick segmental arch over the left-hand window which has a 12-pane horned sash, and a rebuilt brick arch to the right with a 3-over-6-pane horned sash. A plank door sits at the centre, sheltered by an open porch with two unmoulded granite posts supporting a hipped slate roof. Three 6-pane sashes are on the first floor.

The barn to the right has two storeys on the front elevation, with plank doors and granite lintels.

The left-hand room of the house contains a Cornish range manufactured by Broad of Camelford, and a clay oven. The right-hand room has a front lateral stack with a roughly chamfered timber lintel, possibly relocated. The ground floor ceiling beams are roughly chamfered and unstopped, and ceilings are high. The framed late 19th century stair is flanked by early 18th century plank and muntin screens with raised and fielded panels. Early 18th century raised and fielded panelling is in the reveals of the left-hand window. The first-floor bedroom to the right has a painted, probably granite fireplace of the early 17th century with hollow chamfered jambs with pyramid stops, and an altered lintel. The roof structure is not accessible, but the principals appear to have straight, unchamfered feet.

The house stands in close proximity to a second farmhouse, likely built only 30-50 years later, and a further farmhouse to the north.