Strete Ralegh Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Dated 1853. The farmhouse is built of red brick with a decorative pattern of black brick, featuring a chamfered plinth and red sandstone footings. The stacks and chimneyshafts are brick, and the roof is covered in scallop tiles, grey with a red diaper design that complements the walls. The building follows a double-depth plan, oriented southwards, with two rooms wide and two rooms deep. The front rooms serve as the principal rooms, with a parlour to the left and a dining room to the right, separated by a central cross passage. The parlour has a gable-end stack, while the dining room has a rear lateral stack. A staircase separates the parlour from the adjacent dairy, and a passage from the stairs leads to the rear kitchen, situated at the right (east) end. The kitchen has a disused rear lateral stack. The exterior presents a symmetrical three-window front with 20th-century casement windows featuring glazing bars. All windows have chamfered reveals and simple brick hoodmoulds above. The central doorway houses the original plank door with an overlight, though the gabled porch is of mid-20th century design; the original porch was described in a previous listing. The main roof is gable-ended and composed of two parallel roofs. The double-gabled right (east) end has a nearly symmetrical three-window front mirroring the main front, with most of the windows being original, timber-framed with chamfered mullions and diamond panes of leaded glass. Each gable features a terracotta plaque inscribed "WWB, AD 1853." A dairy window on the west side remains unglazed. The interior remains largely original, with plentiful original joinery and detailing, including a stick baluster staircase. The kitchen walls appear to have never been plastered, and the dairy retains its original fittings.