Bubhayne Farmhouse

Bubhayne Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates from the mid to late 17th century and was extended and partially rebuilt by John Farrant in 1897, as indicated by a datestone. The building is constructed from roughcast rubble flint with some cob and features a gable end slate roof. The original layout is somewhat unclear, but it is probably a four-room, cross passage plan, with the service end located to the left of the passage. The principal room, or hall, is situated in the middle of the three rooms on the right, heated by an axial stack that also serves the lower-status room immediately to the right of the passage. There is an internal end stack at the service end, and the right-hand room was partially rebuilt during the 1897 extension. Both stacks have brick shafts, and there are winder stairs located in a turret at the rear of the passage. The farmhouse has two storeys and features a front with a seven-window range, all of which are 20th-century casement windows. A gabled 19th-century porch leads to the passage, and the right-hand corner of the building has rusticated quoining. The rear retains one early 19th-century three-light casement window with eight leaded panes per light, while later 19th-century and 20th-century casements are found elsewhere.

Inside, the service end is divided into two smaller rooms, presumably a kitchen and dairy, by an axial partition that has been dismantled, leaving visible mortices of the muntins on the axial ceiling beam. There is a fireplace with a stopped chamfered lintel. The rear winder stair may retain early carpentry, and there may have been a second similar stair in front of the main axial stack leading off the principal room, which features three chamfered cross ceiling beams with step stops. There is a roughly chamfered cross ceiling beam in the room between the hall and the passage. Two notable pieces of late 17th-century joinery remain: a fielded panel door in the hall and a cupboard in the chamber above, which has a tripartite fielded panel front and a small cornice of turned balusters, although it may not be in its original location. The remainder of the interior features 19th-century joinery, including internal panelled shutters, and the roof is also from the 19th century.