Baycliffe Farmhouse

Baycliffe Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating back to the 17th and 19th centuries. It is constructed of rubble stone with a concrete tiled roof, formerly thatched, and has brick and ashlar stacks. The building is arranged in an 'L' shape. The main two-storey, three-windowed front features casement windows. A four-panelled door is set within an ashlar porch with an entablature to the left of the central gable. To the left of the door is a cyma-moulded cross window with two 2-light cyma-mullioned casements on the first floor. The central gable has angle buttresses, a cross window to the ground floor, a 2-light mullioned window to the first floor, and a blocked loophole in the gable. The verge is coped with kneelers. To the right is a range with two 2-light casements to the ground floor and two pairs of loopholes to the first floor. The left return has two cross windows to the right of the ground floor and two 2-light cyma-mullioned casements to the first floor. A gable to the left features a cross window with a relieving arch and a heart-shaped tablet bearing a Latin inscription, a coped verge, and a large triple brick stack with an ashlar moulded capping. A range to the left has a ground floor lean-to extension and four pairs of loopholes to the first floor. The rear of the main range includes 20th-century steel casements, while the rear of the wing has steel casements and a planked door. The interior is said to have blocked open fireplaces and planked doors. Baycliffe was mentioned in the Domesday Book and appears to have been an important manor until it became part of the Longleat Estate, remaining so until the mid-20th century.