Panshayne Farmhouse

Panshayne Farmhouse is a 17th and 18th century farmhouse, with renovations dating to 1845. It is constructed of local stone and flint rubble, with stone rubble stacks and limestone ashlar quoins. The roof is slate, replacing what was originally thatch. The house was built with a 4-room-and-through-passage plan, situated down a hillslope and facing south. Originally, the two rooms downhill to the left (south) were parlours, with a central axial stack serving back-to-back fireplaces, the central one being larger. A passage runs centrally, leading to a small, unheated room to the right, which was formerly a dairy or buttery. Uphill to the right (north) is a dining room, with a gable-end stack serving a first-floor chamber. A single-story kitchen block was added to the rear of the dining room, containing a stack in its back wall.

The house was refurbished and enlarged in 1845, as evidenced by a datestone on the porch. A visible change in the front wall indicates that the end parlour is a 19th century extension, as is the rear kitchen. Consequently, the original 17th century house comprised the remaining three rooms of the main block - a parlour to the left of the passage and likely a kitchen at the right end, although the stack has since been removed and the end wall rebuilt. The two-story farmhouse has a regular, 4-window front. The ground floor windows are 20th century casements with glazing bars, while the first-floor windows are casements with leaded panes, dating to 1845. The original 17th century section has flat stone arches above the ground floor windows. The front doorway, positioned slightly right of centre, has a 19th century part-glazed plank door.

A gabled porch with Hamstone quoins features an elliptical-headed outer arch with a projecting keystone inscribed 'TTFE Drake Bart 1845.' The roof of the porch is hipped to the left and gable-ended to the right. The interior largely reflects the 1845 modernization but retains the original layout. The room at the right end has a plain chamfered crossbeam. The original parlour boasts a richly moulded 9-panel ceiling. The secondary parlour has a reused 17th century axial beam, chamfered with run-out stops. The roof structure is believed to be 19th century, as the trusses are not visible from the first floor and it has a low pitch.