Bullapit Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Built around the 17th century. The farmhouse is constructed of rendered and painted stone rubble and cob, with a section of the left-hand side wall slate hung with rag slates. The roof is covered with asbestos slate tiles and has gable ends. A stone rubble stack projects from the rear lateral hall, while an end stack on the right has a rendered shaft and a rebuilt stone rubble shaft serves the axial stack towards the left end. The original layout is uncertain, but it likely had a four-room plan with a passage running through. The lower end is on the right and was originally heated by an end stack, the hall by a rear lateral stack, and the inner room by another end stack. A window with an ovolo moulded frame is set into the back wall of the left-hand room, suggesting it is a later addition. A staircase was added in an outshut to the rear of the passage in the 18th century, and a further outshut also from the 18th century extends across the rear of the hall and inner room.

The two-storey front has an asymmetrical five-window facade with a moulded string course above the ground floor openings. A 19th or 20th-century door is situated to the right of centre, alongside a 19th-century three-light casement window and a double casement window from the early 18th century featuring thick glazing bars. Another early 18th-century two-light casement window with thick glazing bars is present, along with a single-light casement and a 19th-century door on the far left. The first floor has a single-light casement, two probably late 18th or 19th-century two-light casements, and two early 18th-century two-light casements with heavy glazing bars. The roof slopes down in a cat-slide over the outshut extension on the front of the left-hand side of the house. A 17th-century mullion window with a timber two-light frame is set into the rear elevation.

Inside, a dog-leg staircase from the 18th century is located at the rear of the passage, with square newels, turned balusters, and a deep moulded rail. Thin partitions flank the passage. The fireplaces now contain 20th-century grates. The roof structure is not accessible, but the principal rafters appear chamfered. Some of the rafter feet are boxed in, and the purlins appear deeply trenched or threaded, suggesting a likely 17th-century roof structure.