Henbere And 2 Adjoining Thatched Barns

This is a late 16th-century farmhouse with two adjoining barns, significantly altered in the 20th century. The farmhouse is built of colourwashed rendered cob and stone, with a slate roof (originally thatched), end stacks with brick shafts, and a projecting front lateral stack with set-offs. The barns are of stone and cob with some repairs; the barn to the right of the house has a thatched roof hipped at the right end, while the barn at right angles to the main house is primarily stone rubble with a thatched, half-hipped roof.

The original house plan comprised three rooms and a through passage. The lower end, to the right, likely served as a parlour and features fine carpentry details. The hall was heated by the front lateral stack, and the inner room to the left may have originally been the kitchen, although the fireplace is now a 19th-century rebuilding. An early 19th-century staircase was inserted into the passage. Around the late 19th century, a single-room-plan rear wing was added in volcanic stone rubble with a slate roof and brick dressings. This wing likely provided a ground floor service room/dairy and accommodation above. In the late 20th century, the house was re-roofed with slate, and adjustments were made to the hall and lower end fireplaces. An outbuilding at the left end has been converted into accommodation with a separate entrance.

The front of the farmhouse has an asymmetrical façade with seven windows. A gabled porch canopy shelters the 20th-century glazed front door, which leads into the passage on the right. A second doorway, also with a gabled porch, provides access to the inner room on the left. Windows are 20th-century 2-light timber casements with 6 panes per light, with a single-light casement on the first floor to the left.

Inside, the hall retains one very deeply chamfered cross beam with pyramid stops; a second cross beam is a later replacement. The original jambs of the fireplace have been rebuilt, but the chamfered lintel remains. In the inner room and lower end, chamfered cross beams with step hollow stops are visible; the lower end room fireplace has rebuilt jambs but retains an ovolo-moulded lintel. Roof timbers are said to have been replaced.

Adjacent to the farmhouse, to the right, is a cob and stone thatched barn with a wide timber lintel over the left-hand door. At right angles to this, and projecting to the front, is a second barn constructed mainly of stone rubble and rendered, with a thatched roof; it features large opposed threshing doors and late 20th-century roof timbers.