Latcham House

Latcham House is a farmhouse, now a house, dating to the late 17th or early 18th century. It may incorporate an earlier building and was extended to the left and refronted in the mid-19th century, with later alterations. The house is constructed of rubble, rendered, with cob walling to the rear right. It has a double Roman tiled roof with ridge and gable stacks, and a pantiled rear wing. The layout is L-shaped with a through passage. A ridge stack was previously at the gable end. The front of the house has two storeys and four windows, all four-pane sashes. The second window from the right has a half-glazed door. The right return has a wall extended at the base of the stack, with a catslide roof to the rear; a 20th-century casement window is at ground floor right. The left return has a single-storey rear wing, formerly an outhouse, with buttresses, a four-pane light, a 20th-century casement with glazing bars, a double door, and a lower lean-to at the gable end. The rear of the house has a 20th-century porch with a glazed door at the rear of the passage, a three-light casement window to the right, and a 20th-century raking dormer in the catslide. The inner side of the rear wing has two doors and a small single light, plus a half-glazed door in the lean-to at the end. Inside, the room to the right has cob walling to the rear, partially exposed after restoration. The room to the left of the passage has a wide fireplace with a rebuilt brick jamb to the left, a cambered chamfered lintel, and an oven to the right; a section of a chamfered beam remains along the passage side. The passage is wide with a straight staircase. It is said that thatch remains in the roof, although this was not accessible at the time of survey in March 1985. The roof level was raised during the 19th-century alterations.