Pulshayes Farmhouse

Pulshayes Farmhouse is a mid-17th century farmhouse, with substantial refurbishment in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and modernisation in 1980. It is constructed of colour-washed local stone and flint rubble, with some cob, and has stone rubble stacks and chimneyshafts rebuilt around 1980. The roof is thatched. The farmhouse’s original plan was a three-room lobby entrance design, built facing south across a hillside. The westernmost room was the parlour, with a gable-end stack. The central room served as the original kitchen and features an axial stack backing onto the parlour, with the front lobby entrance positioned in front of the kitchen stack. The room to the right (east), now a kitchen, likely functioned as a dairy or buttery. A projecting gable-end stack was added here in 1980. A nearby barn has a plaque dated 1684, which may indicate the original construction date of the farmhouse.

The exterior is irregular, with a four-window front featuring 20th-century casement windows with glazing bars, some of which extend into the eaves. Original Beerstone four-light windows with ovolo-moulded mullions and hoodmoulds are located on either side of the front doorway. The doorway itself is slightly left of centre and has a 20th-century part-glazed door, replacing the original. The original chamfered oak doorframe remains visible. The porch, with stone rubble walls and a monopitch thatch roof, may also be original. The roof is gable-ended to the left and half-hipped to the right. Eaves extend over outshots to the rear.

Inside, the parlour fireplace is a 1980 reconstruction in traditional sandstone ashlar, though it contains a roughly-chamfered original crossbeam. The kitchen contains a large stone fireplace with a chamfered oak lintel and an oven relined with 19th-century brick. The crossbeam in the kitchen has plain chamfers. The roof, replaced in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, is supported by a series of A-frame trusses with pegged and spiked lap-jointed collars and X-apexes.