Starveall

Starveall is a farm cottage with an attached shelter shed, barn, and cowshed, which has been partly converted to accommodation. It dates from the 1860s. The cottage is constructed of cob with a hipped tiled roof and features an axial brick stack. The barn is made of weatherboarded timber-frame on an English garden wall bond brick plinth, topped with a Welsh slate roof. The former cowshed is built from cob and rubble stone, also with a tiled roof. This farm group is arranged on three sides of a south-facing yard.

The cottage has a two-storey, four-window east front. It includes a planked door to the left, a 2-light casement to the left, and three casements to the right, one of which is in a blocked doorway. There are four 2-light casements on the first floor. A brick lean-to extension is located on the right return, and there is a rear 20th-century addition in a similar style.

Attached to the rear is a six-bay open-fronted cart shed or shelter shed with a slate roof supported by wooden posts. The five-bay barn, which runs parallel to the house, has double planked central doors facing the yard and steel doors at the rear. The former cowshed, now an annexe to the house, is aligned with the barn and has a planked door, 2-light casements, and an inserted 16-pane sash window in the gable end, along with gabled dormers and casements at the rear.

Inside the house, original joinery is preserved, including doors, a tongue and groove dado, and stairs against the former rear wall, as well as an open fireplace on the north side of the stack. The barn features queen strut trusses on jowled main posts, with a beam in the south side of the central bay inscribed "J. FORD 1865." Starveall is a well-preserved example of a mid-19th century downland farmstead group that has been carefully restored.