Longcoe Farmhouse

Longcoe Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around the mid 17th century, with extensions added to the rear in the early to mid 18th century. It is constructed of rendered stone rubble and cob, topped with a slate roof that has gable ends, continuing in a catslide over the rear outshut. The building features a truncated projecting chimney on the higher gable end, and a rear lateral chimney stack incorporated into the 18th-century outshut, which has a 20th-century brick shaft. There is also a 20th-century brick shaft at the lower gable end.

The farmhouse has a three-room and cross passage plan. The hall appears to have functioned as a hall-kitchen, heated by the rear lateral stack, making it a late example of this plan type. The inner room was heated by a gable end stack, while the lower room may not have originally been heated. A 19th-century stair is located in the cross passage, possibly in its original position. The full range of the rear has an 18th-century outshut added. The rear lateral hall fireplace may have been reoriented in the 18th century to allow the central room of the outshut to serve as a kitchen. There is a dairy in the outshut behind the inner room.

The farmhouse is two storeys high with a regular four-window front. It features a circa 1920s verandah above the ground floor, which has a later corrugated roof. The ground floor includes two 19th-century 16-pane sash windows to the left of a 20th-century glazed door, with another 19th-century 16-pane sash to the right. The first floor has four early 19th-century 16-pane sashes without horns. Inside, there are 20th-century chimney pieces and a 19th-century stair in the cross passage. The roof consists of nine bays; the higher end has five trusses with principals that are chamfered below collar level, four trusses with holes for threaded purlins (with one surviving purlin), and two original cambered and chamfered collars that are halved and pegged onto the face of the principals. The lower end has a closed truss above the lower side of the cross passage, with two trusses likely replaced in the 18th century, having collars pegged onto the face of the principals. The purlins are trenched, with one blackened, likely a reused purlin.