Eppitts

This is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid 16th century, with significant alterations in the later 16th and 17th centuries, and a thorough renovation around 1970. It is constructed of plastered local stone and flint rubble, incorporating sections of cob. The hall stack is Beerstone ashlar with an ashlar chimneyshaft, while the other stacks are stone rubble topped with 20th-century brick. The roof is corrugated iron, originally thatched.

The original layout was a three-room-and-through-passage plan, although the front passage doorway is now blocked. The house sits on a gentle hillslope facing west. To the left (north) is the original inner room, now the kitchen, with a gable-end stack. Adjacent is the hall, featuring a projecting rear lateral stack. The right (south) end comprises the former service room, now the kitchen, also with a gable-end stack. Evidence suggests the original house had an open roof with low partitions and a central hearth for heating. The hall stack was inserted in the mid- to late 16th century, the kitchen stack is likely late 16th to early 17th century, and the house was progressively floored over during the mid-16th to early 17th century. The roof is a replacement, probably from the late 16th to early 17th century, with the inner room stack a 20th-century addition. The original front passage doorway was blocked in the 20th century, and a new entrance was created in the inner room.

The exterior presents an irregular four-window front with 20th-century casement windows lacking glazing bars. The current front doorway is on the left side of the house, set behind a contemporary porch. The roof is gable-ended. Similar 20th-century windows are on the rear elevation.

Inside, the inner room features a 20th-century replacement crossbeam and a contemporary spiral staircase. The hall retains two richly-moulded axial beams from a late 16th to early 17th century intersecting beam ceiling. The fireplace has a chamfered oak lintel with an integral carved mantel shelf decorated with four-leaf motifs, a rare survival. A potentially original oak plank-and-muntin screen, including a shoulder-headed doorway, divides the lower passage. The former kitchen lacks beams, but the fireplace is constructed of stone rubble with a plain-chamfered oak lintel, an oven, and a large cupboard that was likely a former walk-in curing chamber. The roof structure consists of clean, side-pegged jointed cruck trusses.