Newland Farmhouse

A farmhouse, dating from the early to mid-17th century, with rebuilding and possible extension in the early 18th century. The walls are plastered cob on rubble footings, with cob and rubble stacks topped with 20th-century brick. The roof is thatched. Originally, it had a three-room plan with a cross-passage facing south, and an inner room at the west end. A newel stair turret projects to the rear of the passage. The hall has a projecting rear lateral stack, and both the inner room and the lower end parlour have projecting end stacks, the former now disused. There are outshots to the rear. The two-storey south front has an irregular arrangement of five windows, with various late 19th and 20th-century casements featuring glazing bars. A late 19th-century nine-panel door is set within a 20th-century thatched porch with plain posts, positioned to the right of the centre of the passage. The roof is half-hipped to the left and gable-ended to the right, with eaves dropped to a lower level over the passage and service end. Thatch eyebrows project over two first-floor windows on the service end.

Inside, early to mid-17th-century fabric survives in the passage, service end parlour, and stair turret. The hall and inner room appear to be the result of an early 18th-century refurbishment, with the inner room possibly added at that time. The lower end parlour has double ovolo-moulded cross and half-beams with keeled scroll stops, and the oak lintel of the rubble fireplace is stop-chamfered with scroll stops. The newel stair turret includes a small iron casement with leaded glass and a shaped backplate, now set back in a plain oak frame, indicating that the outshot to the rear of the hall is of the 18th or 19th century. At the top of the stairs is a small 17th-century doorframe with a chamfered and scroll-stopped surround, containing a contemporary plank door with crude wrought-iron strap hinges. This leads to a loft over the service end outshot, demonstrating that this outshot is also 17th-century. The 17th-century roof over the service end chamber has two bays with an A-frame truss with pegged lap-jointed collar. The building features a cob crosswall separating the passage and hall. The hall has early 18th-century ceiling beams, square in section and concealed by a suspended ceiling. The hall fireplace is cob-built with rubble sides and a plain oak lintel resting on oak pads. A cob crosswall separating the hall and inner room rises only to the first-floor level. The early 18th-century roof over this section is slightly higher than the 17th-century roof, with A-frame trusses having pegged lap-jointed collars, and the tenon seating the ridge.