Westmead

Westmead is a house dating to the mid-17th century, with additions likely from the 18th century and 20th-century alterations. It is constructed of painted stone rubble with a slate roof, ridge tiles, and gable ends. The house has a gable end stack with a brick shaft to the left, an axial stack with a rubble shaft, and a gable end stack with weathering and a shaped top to the right.

Originally, the house was arranged with a two-room plan, each room heated by a gable end stack and with a lobby entrance against the stack to the right. There was no passage, and initially a stair located to the rear right. Around the 18th century, a single-room addition was added to the left end, with its own gable end stack. It is probable that a straight stair was inserted at the right side of this newer room at the same time. A lean-to was built to the rear of the room to the left, originally heated from a rear left stack. A former dairy, located to the rear of the centre room, has been replaced by a 20th-century addition. In the 19th century, the house was used as two separate dwellings, with a doorway inserted in the front of the room at the right end. This doorway has since been blocked, but now serves as the main entrance.

The front elevation is asymmetrical with three windows, all of which are 20th-century 20-pane sashes to the two rooms on the right, with three at ground floor and two at first floor. The left-hand bay has a 16-pane sash at ground and first floor, along with a 20th-century porch to the right. The original part of the house on the right is at a lower roof level. The left end has an oven at the base of the stack and a 20th-century window at ground floor to the right. The rear of the house includes 20th-century windows at first floor and a single-storey rubble lean-to to the right with 20th-century windows. A 20th-century single-storey addition is present to the left.

Internally, the two original rooms have had the central partition wall removed and are now one room. Chamfered beams with scroll stops remain. The fireplace at the right gable end has a roughly hewn cambered timber lintel, which is a replacement, with granite jambs, chamfered and fitted with pyramid stops. A cloam oven is located to the rear left, featuring a granite cill and a clay door with handle, and a clay-lined oven. The other fireplaces have been rebuilt in the 20th century. A chamfered and stopped granite lintel is set on the rear wall of the original left-hand room; it is thought to have originally been part of a window. Visible at first floor level are the chamfered feet of the principal rafters. The roof space is inaccessible.