Capehams

This is a mid-17th century house, with later 19th-century modernization and a circa 1930 extension. The original section is built of plastered cob on stone rubble footings, while the extension is of plastered brick. It has stone rubble and brick stacks topped with 19th-century brick, and a slate roof, originally thatched over the 17th-century section.

The house initially had a three-room plan, facing south-south-west. The left (west) room has a projecting gable-end stack, with a stair turret rising in the outshot to the rear of this room. An axial stack backs onto the small centre room, which was originally unheated and likely served as a dairy or buttery. The right (east) room has a gable-end stack. This room is a circa 1930 addition. A two-room plan originally existed, with the centre room later incorporated. The original front entrance has been blocked and a late 19th-century doorway was inserted through the left end wall, requiring the demolition of the original newel staircase behind the stack, which has since been replaced.

The house is two storeys high with lean-to outshots to the rear, some of which may be original. The front has a regular 4-window facade of 20th-century casements with glazing bars. A ground floor window to the left of centre now obscures the original doorway. The roof is gable-ended. The left-end doorway leads to a late 19th- or early 20th-century part-glazed door, set behind a gabled porch on rustic posts.

The interior carpentry of the original 17th-century section remains well preserved. The larger, heated room features a chamfered crossbeam with scroll-stopped spine beams with run-out stops, and the fireplace is blocked by a 20th-century grate. The timber-framed partition between the two original rooms is plastered, but the headbeam in the heated room is exposed and has an ovolo-moulded cornice. The roof over the original section is three bays; the trusses are plastered over, but the shape of the truss over the heated room suggests it is a jointed cruck, while the other truss, boxed into a partition, was likely built as a closed truss.

Capehams is situated within a group of attractive listed buildings near the Church of St Andrews.