Virginia

Virginia is a small house dating from the 16th century, with improvements made in the 17th century and modernized and enlarged around 1980. The structure features plastered cob on exposed rubble, with a rubble stack topped with 20th-century brick and a thatched roof. Originally, it had a one-room layout with an entrance lobby facing southeast and a large axial stack backing onto the lobby. There is a flat-roofed extension added to the left (southwest) around 1980. The house is two storeys high and has a one-window front with 20th-century casements, which have glazing bars and are positioned towards the left end, flanked by 20th-century battered rubble buttresses. To the right of the center, there is a large semi-circular oven projection with a thatched roof and a circa 1980 door at the right end. The roof is gable-ended. Inside, there is a large stone fireplace with a plain chamfered oak lintel, likely from the 17th century. The 17th-century axial beam is chamfered with scroll stops. The roof, probably from the 16th century, features a side-pegged jointed cruck truss over the hall, although the roof space is inaccessible. A 16th-century oak round-headed doorframe leading from the main house to the circa 1980 extension may have been reset.