10, Main Street

No. 10 Main Street is a house and barn with origins dating back to the 16th century, which underwent alterations in the early 17th and 18th centuries. It was likely originally a long-house. The structure features walls made of brick and stone, with sections raised in plastered cob, and has a thatched roof with brick stacks. The front of the building is two storeys high, while the rear is one storey with attics, indicating that the front wall has been raised.

The layout follows a long-house plan, including a byre at the west end, a cross-passage, a hall, and an inner room, all of which were originally open to the roof. In the early 17th century, the hall was floored over, and a stack was inserted between the hall and the inner room. The byre was converted into a kitchen, likely in the 18th century, and the front wall was raised to two storeys. A dairy and cheese room were added to the west of the kitchen in the 19th century. There is a cross-gable at the rear of the hall, marking the site of a former spiral stair.

The main elevation features a ledged door within a timber porch that has a tiled lean-to roof. The ground floor includes three horizontally sliding sash windows with glazing bars and timber lintels, while the first floor has four similar windows. Traces of a former cross-gable over the hall, predating the raising of the front wall, can still be seen, along with evidence of cruck posts in the wall. At the time of the survey, the 19th-century dairy block was under repair. A single-storey rear lean-to has a corrugated asbestos roof, and there are two cross-gables at the rear, one thatched and one tiled.

Internally, the hall features deep chamfered intersecting ceiling beams and a large stone fireplace with a timber lintel. The kitchen also has chamfered ceiling beams and a large brick fireplace with a timber lintel. The roof is of jointed cruck construction. The attached barn to the east has a south wall made of stone and a series of brick piers on the north side supporting the roof, which is thatched. The walls of the barn incorporate some moulded stone corbels, possibly from Bindon Abbey.