Westwood Farmhouse

Westwood Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 16th century, with a 17th-century extension and improvements. It is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with rubble and granite stacks topped with 20th-century brick, and features a wheat reed thatched roof. The building is L-shaped, with the gable-ended main block facing north-east. It has a three-room-and-through-passage plan, with an inner room at the right (north-west) end and a dairy wing added in the 17th century to the rear of the inner room. There is an end stack to the service room and an axial hall stack backing onto the passage. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has an irregular three-window front, with a 20th-century door set left of centre. A granite ashlar chimney shaft with moulded coping serves the hall.

Inside, the service room features a late 17th-century rubble fireplace with an oak lintel that is chamfered with straight cut stops, along with a stone side oven doorway, a cloam oven, and a pitched slate floor. There is a 19th-century crossbeam and a lower passage screen. Beyond the back of the hall stack is a 17th-century oak plank-and-muntin screen. The large hall fireplace has an oak lintel, and a 16th-century oak plank-and-muntin screen that was originally at the upper end of the hall has been relocated to the end wall of the inner room to create a larger space. The roof may have a 16th-century true cruck truss over the hall and a 17th-century A-frame truss with a dovetail-lap collar over the service room, although the roofspace is inaccessible. The rear block contains the dairy, with an unheated chamber above it.