The Old Colony The Old Colony Formerly Called Glanville'S Farmhouse

The Old Colony, formerly known as Glanville's Farmhouse, is a former farmhouse dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century, with renovations made in the late 20th century. It is constructed of whitewashed rendered cob and stone rubble, topped with a thatched roof that has a plain ridge, hipped at the left end, and gabled at the right end. The building features an axial stack with a brick shaft, a right end stack (the shaft of which has been dismantled), and a stack at the rear wing.

The layout consists of a three-room and through passage plan, with an unheated lower end to the left (west), a hall stack backing onto the passage, and a formerly heated inner room. There are several outshuts off the rear (north) wall, which include a small buttery off the hall and service rooms.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical three-window south front facing the former yard. A 20th-century front door leads into the passage, located to the left of centre. To the right of the door, two ground floor windows retain late 16th or 17th century moulded timber frames with 20th-century glazing, while the other windows are 20th-century timber casements with glazing bars. The rear (north) elevation, which faces the road, has a 19th or 20th-century plank rear door to the passage beneath a slated pentice, along with one first-floor two-light and one ground-floor three-light 20th-century timber casement with glazing bars. To the left, there is a series of outshuts with catslide roofs.

Inside, the hall features a good open fireplace with chamfered Beerstone jambs, a chamfered timber lintel with mason's mitres, and a bread oven. On the rear (north) wall, there is an ovolo-moulded doorframe leading into the buttery outshut, and adjacent to this, a 17th-century fitted dresser with two sets of cupboards and turned balusters is preserved in the thickness of the wall. The partition between the hall and inner room has mostly been removed, leaving remnants of oak studs that were once filled with wattle, along with a blocked ovolo-moulded doorframe. Only the chamfered timber lintel of the inner room fireplace remains. The roof includes one side-pegged jointed cruck truss, which is not smoke-blackened. The building is located at the east end of a notable village characterized by cob and thatch.