Shorton Farmhouse

Shorton Farmhouse is a house dating back to the 17th century or possibly earlier. It is constructed from local red breccia rubble with some cob, mostly rendered, and has a concrete tile roof with gabled ends. The stacks are rendered, one with two old pots. Originally, the house had a three-room plan, with a central room heated by a stack on the rear wall; the stair projection is on the front, and a secondary wing extends at a right angle containing a porch.

The exterior is two stories high, with deep eaves on the exposed rafter ends. Most of the windows are 1990s casements with one, two, or three lights. The Sleepy Lane elevation now serves as the entrance front with a 2:1:2 window arrangement. A gabled projection in the center has a front door on the right and one ground-floor and one first-floor window. A window is located on the return of the projection. The main range has a shallow projection to the left with a late 19th-century fixed window on the first floor. The rear elevation, which may have originally been the front, has a shallow, shouldered lateral stack to the right of center, with the remains of a bread oven bulge. A 20th-century gabled porch is situated alongside to the left. The original front elevation has four ground-floor and four first-floor windows. One ground-floor window retains the remains of a square-headed hoodmould.

The interior was gutted during a renovation, removing all internal partitions, the stair, and the first floor. A single chamfered ceiling beam with run-out stops from the 17th century survives. The stair projection is slightly rounded internally. Wall tops are built up in brick to accommodate a common rafter 20th-century roof, and short, now bricked-in slots indicate the footprints of principal rafters of an earlier roof. The original interior is largely lost, except for the one beam. The exterior retains some of its early character.