Gwills Farmhouse

Gwills Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 18th century. It features serpentine rubble walls with dressed granite quoins, jambstones, and lintels, along with wooden lintels over the first-floor windows. The roof is made of asbestos slate and has brick chimneys at the gable ends. The building has a double depth plan, consisting of two rooms wide, with a later kitchen added in the 19th century behind the right-hand room.

The layout includes large front reception rooms flanking a central passage that leads to a stair hall, which is partly behind the left-hand room. There are pantries located behind both the left-hand and right-hand rooms; the right-hand pantry was likely converted from the original kitchen in the 19th century and has a passage at the sides and rear. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a symmetrical three-window front facing southeast.

The central wide doorway features a four-panel door approached by two granite steps, with an overlight above. There are two-light windows above the doorway and three-light windows in wide openings on both the ground and first floors to the left and right. All windows are original horizontal sliding sashes with six panes per light, retaining much of the original glass. The rear of the farmhouse is also largely unaltered since the 19th century.

Inside, the interior remains mostly unchanged and retains much of its original carpentry and joinery, including an open-well closed-string stair with rectangular balusters, six-panel doors on the ground floor, and two-panel doors on the first floor. Notably, attached within the jambs of the rear doorway into the courtyard are two similar carved and painted wooden male figures with smiling faces, believed to have been salvaged from a ship. This farmhouse is an unusually complete example from the late 18th century, remaining unaltered since the 19th century on all sides and featuring all its original windows.