Halses And Front Garden Wall To East

Halses and the front garden wall to the east of Newton St Cyres is a former farmhouse with origins dating back to the early 16th century, featuring improvements from the 16th and 17th centuries, as well as later alterations. The building is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with stone stacks topped with brick that are visible above the thatched roof. It has a traditional three-room layout with a through passage, now extended to two storeys throughout.

On the right (north) end, there is a small inner room or dairy, while a large service room at the lower end was divided in the late 18th to 19th centuries. The roof is hipped on the left side and gabled on the right. The passage door is nearly central, with a casement window to the hall and an ancillary door to the inner room on the right, and two differently sized windows on the left. The thatch has been lifted to accommodate two first-floor windows.

The roof structure was rebuilt in the late 18th to 19th centuries but retains fragments of the original smoke-blackened roof supported by side-pegged jointed crucks. In the late 16th to early 17th century, a hall stack was inserted, backing onto the passage at the front, with the rear featuring an oak post-and-panel screen and a segmental-headed door. The hall was floored in the 17th century and includes a scroll-stopped beam. The cob garden wall at the right end of the front curves around to enclose the front garden and steps down in height, topped with pitched tiles.