West Hill Farmhouse

West Hill Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse, possibly with an earlier core, that features late 17th-century improvements along with 19th and early 20th-century modernizations. The building is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with stone rubble or cob stacks topped with 20th-century brick, and has a thatched roof.

The house faces southeast and has a basic three-room-and-through-passage plan layout, with a former inner room at the right (northeast) end. The larger former service end room has likely been extended. Both the former service and inner rooms have projecting end stacks, though the latter is disused. The hall includes a projecting rear lateral stack with what is likely a secondary oven projection. The rear of the passage is now blocked by a late 17th-century staircase.

The farmhouse has two storeys and an irregular six-window front featuring late 19th and 20th-century casements with glazing bars. Above the passage door is a late 18th to early 19th-century three-light casement that includes rectangular panes of leaded glass. The door below is from the 20th century, and a secondary door to the inner room, located towards the right end, is behind a 20th-century flat-roofed and glass-sided porch. The roof is gable-ended to the left and half-hipped to the right.

Inside, most features reflect 19th and early 20th-century modernizations, but the layout suggests that original features may still exist behind later plasterwork. All fireplaces are blocked by 20th-century chimney-pieces. However, the former hall retains exposed early or mid-17th-century crossbeams with richly-moulded soffits and unusual fin-shaped stops. The upper end crossbeam is set well in from the crosswall, indicating that the chamber over the inner room may have jettied into a once open hall. The rear of the former passage is now blocked by a staircase that has a straight flight to a half-landing, then turns both ways along the rear wall. This staircase features a fine late 17th-century dog gate with two tiers of turned balusters. The roof was inaccessible during the survey, but the farmer claims it consists of A-frame trusses with pegged lap-jointed collars throughout, and part of the wall plate is exposed externally under the eaves towards the right end, likely dating from the late 17th century.