Stillinghayes Farmhouse

Stillinghayes Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1870, constructed from local stone and flint rubble with brick dressings. The front is plastered and whitewashed elsewhere, featuring stone rubble stacks topped with 19th and 20th-century brick, and a slate roof. The farmhouse has a four-room plan, facing south, with the main part at the left (west) end, closest to the road. This section contains the principal rooms, connected by a through-passage that includes the main stair. The left room has a gable-end stack, while the right room has an axial service stack that backs onto the service rooms. The service block, which is lower and narrower than the main part, is set back slightly. The first room in this block, likely the kitchen, has an axial stack that backs onto a small end room, the dairy.

The exterior features a symmetrical two-window front with original casements that have glazing bars, and the ground floor windows are set under low segmental arches. The central passage front doorway has an original part-glazed six-panel door beneath a gabled hood supported by shaped raking brackets. The rear passage doorway is similar, but its hood has cusped bargeboards. The main roof is gable-ended, and there is a timber open valance along the eaves of the main block. The left gable-end, facing the road, also displays cusped bargeboards. The interior has not been inspected. Stillinghayes is part of a group of attractive listed buildings that form the center of the village, most of which were built by Lord Sidmouth in the 19th century.