Coburns Farmhouse

Coburns Farmhouse is a mid-17th century farmhouse that was refurbished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It is constructed from local stone and flint rubble, with roughcast to the front, stone rubble stacks topped with 19th and 20th century brick, and a slate roof, originally thatched. The farmhouse is built across a hillslope, incorporating a three-room-and-through-passage plan, facing south-east. Originally, the house had a two-room plan with a wide passage, likely containing a small dairy or buttery. A parlour with a gable-end stack was added in the late 18th or early 19th century to the left (south-west) end. The dining room, with an axial stack backing onto the parlour, sits adjacent to the parlour, followed by the kitchen, also with a gable-end stack, to the right. A single-room plan dairy block projects at right angles to the rear of the kitchen. The house was reroofed and the dairy added during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

The two-storey front has a regular, though not symmetrical, four-window arrangement, featuring mostly 20th-century casement windows. One 19th-century window with rectangular panes of leaded glass is located above the passage doorway. Additional 19th-century windows are present to the rear, and the dairy retains one shuttered window. A late 19th or early 20th century plank door with a window is set within the front doorway, which is positioned slightly right of centre. The roof is gable-ended.

The interior of the original 17th-century sections of the farmhouse feature deeply chamfered crossbeams with run-out stops. Although fireplaces are blocked by 20th-century additions, the large sizes of the original fireplaces are still evident, and part of the oak lintel of the kitchen fireplace remains visible. All joinery detail dates from the 19th and 20th centuries. The roof structure, also from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, is supported by A-frame trusses with staggered tusk-tenoned purlins and plate yokes. A lean-to pump house is located to the rear of the passage.