Trixes

Trixes is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, likely built in the mid-16th century with an extension added in the late 16th to early 17th century. The building was refurbished and rearranged internally around 1975. It features plastered cob on rubble footings, with stone rubble and cob stacks topped with 19th and 20th-century brick, and a thatched roof. Originally, it had a three-room-and-through-passage layout facing east, with the former service end room located at the left (southern) end. An adjoining structure, Ivy Cottage, is located at the right (northern) end. The inner room is unheated, while the hall has a projecting front lateral stack and the service room has an end stack. The late 16th to early 17th-century kitchen block has an end stack that projects to the rear of the hall.

The house is two storeys high and has an irregular four-window front featuring 19th-century flat-faced mullion windows with rectangular panes of leaded glass, including some 20th-century replacements. To the left of the stack, the front of the passage now has a 20th-century door and side light, along with a contemporary wide porch that has a monopitch slate roof. The stack is made of exposed stone rubble and includes a lower section of the original chimney shaft, which has been extended with 19th and 20th-century brick. The roof is gable-ended.

Internally, significant alterations were made around 1975, including the removal of oak plank-and-muntin screens at both ends of the hall, along with a crossbeam. The fireplaces are made of stone rubble with plain oak lintels, likely dating from the 17th century. There is a full-height cob crosswall on the lower side of the passage. The original roof over the hall and inner room is supported by two probably raised true crucks, with two sets of threaded purlins and a ridge. The truss over the hall has a cambered collar, while the northern truss was originally closed, with the infill removed around 1975. The hall roof is smoke-blackened, indicating that it was open to the roof and heated by an open hearth fire. The roof over the service room and extension is inaccessible. The kitchen extension features a late 16th to early 17th-century axial beam that is soffit-chamfered with step stops, along with a large cob and rubble fireplace that has a plain soffit-chamfered oak lintel. The building is shown as Tricks Farm on the Ordnance Survey map.