Eastwood Farmhouse

Eastwood Farmhouse is a farmhouse with origins dating back to the early 16th century, which was remodeled in the late 16th to early 17th century, with some alterations made in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of colourwashed rendered cob and features a slate roof that is gabled at both ends, with a left end stack and two axial stacks.

The farmhouse has a three-room and cross passage plan, with the lower end located to the left and a hall stack backing onto the passage. There is a single-storey rear lean-to with a corrugated iron roof and a rear left stair projection. The house originally had a late medieval open hall built with jointed cruck construction, which includes three sooted roof trusses in the center of the range. The right end of the range may have always been storeyed, while the left end could represent a 17th-century rebuilding. In the 19th century, the house was refenestrated, and a stair was added into the passage. The roof, which was presumably originally thatched, has been raised, and a new roof was added above the medieval trusses.

The exterior of the farmhouse is two storeys high, featuring a long six-window front elevation with a gabled 19th-century porch located to the left of center, leading into the former passage. There is also an additional 20th-century porch with a lean-to corrugated iron roof on the front at the left. The windows include a variety of 19th and 20th-century timber sashes and casements with glazing bars.

Inside, the farmhouse remains very unspoiled and contains several interesting features. The lower end room has an open fireplace with a bread oven and a hearth window, as well as a chamfered cross beam and a fixed bench on the partition wall with the passage. This bench is supported by timber brackets and features a shaped 17th-century bench end and a panelled bench back with fielded panels below an order of cable moulding. The former passage has a 19th-century tiled floor and a stick baluster stair with a turned newel post. The hall has been divided by an axial rear passage and contains two deeply chamfered but plastered over crossbeams, along with a 19th-century cast iron and tiled grate. There is also a deeply chamfered step-stopped axial beam leading to the inner room, and a probably 17th-century timber stair in the rear stair projection. The roof features three heavily sooted jointed cruck medieval smoke-blackened roof trusses beneath a later roof.