Little Cobden Farmhouse

Little Cobden Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, with some modernisation in the 20th century. It is constructed of plastered cob on stone rubble footings, with one stack made of cob or stone rubble and another of brick, both featuring plastered chimneyshafts. The roof is slate, having originally been thatch.

The farmhouse has a three-room-and-through-passage plan and faces west-southwest. At the right north end is an unheated inner room, followed by the former hall, which has an axial stack backing onto the passage. A newel stair turret projects to the rear of the hall near the passage's rear doorway. The left south end contains the lower end kitchen, which has a projecting gable-end stack. While an internal inspection was not possible during the survey, it is believed that the house was originally built in the 16th century as some form of open hall, likely heated by an open hearth fire.

The building is two storeys high and features a lean-to outshot at the rear of the hall and inner room. The exterior has an irregular five-window front with 20th-century casements that lack glazing bars. The passage has front and back doorways with 20th-century doors, and the roof is gable-ended. Although the interior was not inspected, an oak plank-and-muntin screen was observed at the upper end of the hall, suggesting that the original layout is well-preserved and that there is a significant amount of 16th and 17th-century structural detail present.