Farmhouse On West Side Of Yard Of At Tresibbett

A farmhouse, likely dating from the early 17th century, with possible origins in an earlier period. The farmhouse is constructed of thick stone rubble walls, rendered and painted, with a slate roof featuring a gable end on the left and a hipped end on the right. A lower slate roof with a hipped end covers an attached outbuilding on the left. There are stone rubble end and rear lateral stacks, with the rear stack incorporated into a later outshut. The original plan comprised three rooms and a cross or through passage, with a lower end on the left (heated by the end stack), a hall on the right (heated by the rear lateral stack), and a dairy to the right, originally partially built into the rising ground. Early 19th-century outbuildings are located on the lower left-hand end, and an outshut extends across the rear. The two-storey, asymmetrical front has four windows. The entrance is located to the left of centre, with a 20th-century part-glazed door under a slate hipped hood. This is flanked by two 20th-century two-light casements and a further part-glazed 20th-century door to the right, with four 20th-century windows on the first floor. Internally, partitions on the lower side of the passage and between the hall and dairy have been removed, and the floor joists in the left-hand room replaced in the 20th century. A large kitchen fireplace in the left-hand room has a granite hollow chamfered surround with an incised lintel bearing a putative date and initials ‘1382 R’. A clom oven is present (Fishley). The hall fireplace has been blocked, but appears to have been large and arched with a keyblock, as described by the owner. The roof structure remains unexamined.