West Raddon Farmhouse

West Raddon Farmhouse is a large farmhouse and adjoining cottage dating from the late 15th to early 16th century, with later modernisations and extensions from the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The building is constructed of rendered cob and stone, with some brickwork, and features stone and brick stacks under a slate roof, which was formerly thatched.

The core of the farmhouse has a three-room and through passage plan. The inner room to the west, which is on the left side of the front, was rebuilt in the 16th century as a cross wing that projects at both the front and rear, with a projecting lateral stack on the left side. There is a volcanic stone lateral stack that projects to the rear of the hall, which has been partly rebuilt in brick. A former gable stack to the right service room now separates the main house from an 18th-century, partly brick, one-room cottage. The building is now two storeys throughout, featuring a six-window front with uniform 19th and 20th-century two-light timber casements, each with eight panes and glazing bars. The central entrance has a six-panel door behind a porch with a slate monopitch roof, and there is a cottage door on the extreme right.

The interior reflects significant late 18th and 19th-century modernisations, such as a hall with boxed-in beams and 19th-century wainscotting, although many early features are likely concealed. The parlour wing, probably from the 16th century, includes deep-chamfered and stopped cross beams. An original volcanic stone passage doorway, featuring a two-centred arch with a moulded surround, has been reset in the angle of the wings at the rear. The roof has been renewed, but remnants of smoke-blackened, side-pegged, jointed cruck roof trusses can still be seen over the hall and lower end, with the tops cut off below collar level. This farmhouse is an important early structure with many hidden features and structural elements, and it was a Domesday manor. In the 16th century, it was the home of Thomas Westcote, who authored "Views of Devonshire" in 1567.