Ingo Down Farmhouse

Ingo Down Farmhouse is a farmhouse that may have originally been two cottages. It dates from the late 17th century and was extended in the early 20th century. The building is constructed of plastered cob and rubble, with rubble stacks topped by 19th and 20th-century brick, and features a thatched roof. The house has a three-room layout facing south, with the central and right (east) end rooms dating from the late 17th century, likely representing the original one-room cottages. The left (west) end is the early 20th-century extension. There are end stacks for the outer rooms and a rear diagonal corner stack for the middle room. The farmhouse has two storeys and an irregular five-window front; the left three windows are casements without glazing bars, with the thatch extending over first-floor half dormers, while the right two windows are late 19th-century casements, some with glazing bars, and include first-floor windows with 19th-century rectangular panes of leaded glass. The main entrance is at the left end, featuring a 20th-century porch, and there is a glazed 20th-century door in the middle of the extension. A former door on the left side of the middle room has been blocked and replaced with a window. The roof is gable-ended at both ends.

Inside, the two 17th-century rooms are partially divided by the remains of an oak plank-and-muntin screen, which has chamfered and scroll-stopped muntins. It is believed that contemporary framing still exists behind the plaster on the first floor. The right (east) end room features a late 17th-century chamfered cross beam with straight cut stops, a stone fireplace with a plain oak lintel, and a brick side oven to the left. An alcove to the left was the site of the original winder stair, and there is a cream oven alcove in the rear wall. The center room has an unfinished crossbeam and a rubble corner fireplace with a plain oak lintel and an oven on the left side. The original roof remains intact, consisting of two bays with a truss that has a pegged lap-jointed collar and through purlins. However, the lower principals are buried in the crosswall, making it impossible to determine whether the truss is a jointed cruck or an A-frame form.