Stooks Including Garden Boundary Wall Adjoining North-West

Stooks is a farmhouse that dates back to the early 16th century or earlier. It is constructed of cob, rendered, and sits on a stone plinth beneath a gabled thatched roof. The building features a left-hand end stack and two lateral back stacks. Originally, it was designed as a three-room house with a through passage, later incorporating a back corridor. The hall was once open to the roof, although the lower end likely was not.

The farmhouse has two storeys. The front facade includes a wide doorway to the left of centre, which has scratch moulding on the jambs and lintels, along with a 20th-century window above. There are three additional windows on each floor, with the three upper windows set high and two positioned under eyebrow eaves. The arrangement of the windows is slightly irregular. The upper windows feature 19th-century casements, while the ground floor windows are from the 20th century.

On the rear elevation, there are remnants of a slate-roofed newel stair turret situated between the back stacks, which supports a slightly projecting feature with a small window that illuminates the upstairs back corridor. Inside, there are remains of a low partition separating the through passage from the right-hand room (or hall). The hall contains a fireplace with ovolo mouldings on the Thorverton stone jambs and a wooden lintel, along with remnants of a blocked bread oven. The beams are chamfered with step stops. Between the hall and the inner room, there is a stud and panel screen, with the studs featuring shallow chamfers and no stops. Above this is a beam with cyma-reversa moulding. The inner chamber has a 19th-century chimney piece, with the stack being a later addition to what was previously an unheated room, situated below a heavily chamfered beam.

The roof above the hall is smoke blackened. The hall section is separated from the lower end by a closed truss, with the principal pegged into the collar, while the lower end side is clean. The roof over the lower end has been replaced, as has the roof over the inner room. The hall roof is unusual in that it lacks principals; the division between the hall and the inner room is marked by a common rafter with a central strut. The right-hand end features a hip cruck.

Additionally, there is a garden boundary wall adjoining the left side of the farmhouse, which is made of plastered cob from the 19th century and topped with tile capping. This wall is included for its group value.