Empacombe Home Farm

Empacombe Home Farm consists of barns, a granary, and associated farm buildings, which have been converted into a house. The buildings date from around 1850 and are constructed of red sandstone random rubble with brick dressings, featuring re-set granite elements from the 16th or 17th century. The house has a roof covered with asbestos cement slates, while the other structures are topped with corrugated asbestos sheeting. The layout is U-shaped, with a central granary now serving as the farmhouse, flanked by open-fronted shelter sheds that lead to two-storey cow houses projecting forward.

The house itself is two storeys high with an attic, featuring three windows that are all 20th-century, six-light casements with brick segmental heads, and a central porch added in the 20th century. Gabled dormers with two-light casements and scalloped barge boards are present. The rear elevation is only one storey high and includes a central doorway.

The shelter sheds have five bays on either side, each with round-arched openings. The centre opening on the right is narrower, while the left side features a reset moulded granite doorway. There are ventilation slits and another reset doorway at the rear. The cow houses to the left consist of seven bays, with round-arched openings filled to half height, except for the centre. Above a former loading door, there are two two-light openings. The right cow house has a bank barn above it, with four bays to the left and two to the right, featuring round-headed arches and midstreys at the rear. Two loading doors face the yard, with ventilation slits under the eaves.

The barn includes a loading door on the south gable and a gothic Y-tracery blind feature window on the north gable, designed to be visible from a distance. This farmyard has undergone some alterations and was originally built as the Home Farm for Mount Edgecumbe.