Musgrove Farmhouse

Musgrove Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 17th to early 18th century, with significant modernisation and extension in the mid to late 19th century. The house is constructed of plastered local stone rubble, with some cob, and has stone rubble stacks topped with 20th-century brick. The roof is covered with bitumen sheets, originally thatched.

The original plan was of a four-room farmhouse facing south-east. To the right (north-east) is a small unheated room, likely a former dairy or buttery. Adjacent to this is the kitchen, featuring a rear lateral stack. To the left of centre is a parlour/dining room with a front door and an axial stack, backing onto a parlour at the left end, which has a gable-end stack. The left-end parlour appears to be a 19th-century extension. The remainder of the house seems to be a single phase of late 17th to early 18th-century construction.

The exterior presents an irregular three-window front with replacement casement windows, incorporating glazing bars. An approximately contemporary, gabled, slate-roofed porch shelters the main front door, which features a 19th-century, one-panel door. A secondary doorway with side lights provides access to the former dairy/buttery. The roof is half-hipped to the right and gable-ended to the left, with a stepped rise from the main house to the left-end extension.

The interior is largely the result of the mid to late 19th-century modernisation. The left-end section exhibits no original carpentry or features and appears wholly 19th-century in date. Although 19th-century joinery is present throughout the rest of the house, the basic structure is late 17th to early 18th century, and the modernisation seems superficial. The kitchen and former dairy/buttery retain roughly-finished crossbeams. The kitchen fireplace is blocked. In the parlour/dining room, the crossbeam is chamfered with run-out stops, and the original oak-framed front of the fireplace is exposed, despite being blocked by a 20th-century grate. The roofspace is inaccessible, but the bases of straight principals are visible on the first floor, large enough to suggest they are from original A-frame roof trusses.