Minors

This is a house, formerly a farmhouse, dating primarily to the early 16th century, with significant alterations in the late 16th and 17th centuries. Further rearrangement occurred in the 19th century, followed by modernization and enlargement around 1980. The construction is of plastered cob on stone rubble footings, with some 19th-century brickwork and a 20th-century concrete block extension. The roof is thatched and sits atop an ashlar stack with a sandstone chimney shaft.

The main block originally comprised a three-room-and-through-passage plan. 19th-century modifications cut off the ends, creating narrow rooms flanking the hall, making it difficult to determine the original service and inner rooms. A large, projecting front lateral stack incorporates a secondary oven projection. A rear block, built around 1980, projects at a right angle from the eastern end, containing two rooms behind a large entrance hall with a modern staircase. A second staircase is located at the western end of the main block.

The front of the house presents an irregular three-window facade of 19th and 20th-century casement windows with glazing bars, with the left end window flanked by sloping buttresses. The hall stack has weathered offsets and a double ashlar shaft with soffit-moulded coping. The roof is half-hipped to the left and gable-ended to the right. The rear of the main block and the extension feature casement windows with glazing bars, harmonizing with the original structure.

Internally, the oldest visible feature is the roof structure, a four-bay roof supported by side-pegged jointed cruck trusses. The central hall truss has chamfered arch-bracing with a dimple at the apex, suggestive of an ogee arch. Some exposed roofspace over the eastern room shows smoke-blackened timbers, indicating that the original house was open from end to end, divided by low partitions and heated by an open hearth. Trusses at each end of the hall were filled with full-height oak-framed partitions, likely in the mid-16th century. A Beerstone ashlar fireplace was inserted later, featuring a soffit-chamfered oak lintel with run-out stops, and the oven was added subsequently and is now blocked. The hall was floored in the 17th century, featuring a three-bay ceiling with soffit-chamfered and scroll-stopped crossbeams. The hall stack was adapted at this time to accommodate a blocked first-floor fireplace. The 1980 rear block incorporates salvaged old beams. The hall’s size and arch-braced open truss suggest a substantial late medieval dwelling.