Eppletons

Eppletons is a pair of houses that were formerly a farmhouse, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, with possibly earlier origins. The building was subdivided around 1980. It features plastered cob on rubble footings, with stone rubble or cob stacks topped with 19th and 20th-century brick, and a thatched roof with corrugated asbestos on the outshots. The long block faces south and now consists of two adjoining houses, with No. 1 on the left (west) and No. 2 on the right (east). Originally, it was a three-room farmhouse with a through passage and a service room at the right end, later extended by one room to the left in the 18th century.

No. 1 occupies the extension and includes an end stack and a former inner room, while No. 2 contains the former hall with an axial stack that backs onto the passage, as well as the former service room with an end stack. There are continuous secondary outshots along the rear. The building is two storeys high, presenting an irregular five-window front featuring various late 19th and 20th-century casements of different sizes, most with glazing bars. The three first-floor windows of No. 1 have low thatch eyebrows above them.

No. 1 has a late 19th to early 20th-century plank door and a monopitch porch with a slate roof. No. 2 has a 19th-century six-panel door and a monopitch porch with a shingle roof. The roof is half-hipped to the left and gable-ended to the right. The interior includes mostly late 17th and early 18th-century carpentry and joinery details, although some earlier features may be concealed. In No. 2, the hall has a soffit-chamfered crossbeam with worn scroll stops, a large rubble fireplace with a replacement lintel and a 19th-century side oven, and an 18th-century cupboard with a panelled door in the cob crosswall at the upper end of the hall. The winder stair to the rear may be original late 17th to early 18th-century work. The service end room has a plain square-section crossbeam, and its fireplace is blocked. Several old plank doors with strap hinges are present. The roof appears to be early 18th-century throughout, supported by A-frame trusses with pegged lap-jointed collars and X-apexes where accessible.