Savourys

Savourys is an early 17th-century house, originally a farmhouse, with a mid-19th-century extension. The main block is built of plastered cob on rubble footings, while the extension is of exposed rubble. It has stone rubble stacks topped with 20th-century brick and a thatched roof. The original plan was a 2-room layout with a central staircase, facing southwest, with end stacks, the one on the right (southeast) projecting, and including a secondary oven projection. An extension with a hipped roof projects forward at the left (northwest) end, offset and connecting only at the corner.

The front elevation has an irregular 3-window arrangement of various casement windows. The three first-floor windows and the left-ground-floor window are 18th-century flat-faced mullion casements with rectangular panes of leaded glass. Other ground-floor windows are 20th-century, one with leaded glass, and one with glazing bars. A 17th-century porch, slightly right of centre, has cob walls and a hipped roof. The oak outer arch has a richly moulded architrave of hollow chamfers and fillets. A small lancet window, fashioned from a single piece of oak, is visible in the right side wall. The front doorway is 17th-century with an oak frame and ogee-moulded surround, and contains a contemporary studded plank door with strap hinges and an oak lock-housing.

The rear elevation has more 18th-century casements, alongside some 20th-century replacements, all with leaded glass. Behind the right (east) room is an original 17th-century oak 3-light window with flat mullions and shallow corner mouldings. It has diamond panes of leaded glass, some of them very old and tinged green, and an original iron-framed casement with an ornate catch.

The front of the extension has late 19th-century casements with glazing bars, the ground floor casement including a twisted iron security bar.

Inside, mostly 17th-century features remain. The right room retains a pitched cobble floor, and a crossbeam with a soffit-chamfered spine with run-out stops. The rubble fireplace in the left room has a soffit-chamfered and straight-cut stopped oak lintel, while the fireplace in the left room has a low arched lintel, its soffit also chamfered with scroll stops. The original roof structure consists of A-frame trusses with pegged, lap-jointed collars and dovetail halvings.