Moor Farmhouse

Moor Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 15th to early 16th century, with alterations and extensions made in the 16th and 17th centuries, and modernisation in the 19th century and 1983. It is constructed of roughcast cob and volcanic stone, with cob and volcanic stone stacks topped with brick, and a concrete pantile roof which replaced the original thatch in 1983. Originally, the farmhouse had a 3-room plan with a through passage and a service room to the west. In the late 16th century, the upper end was extended, and in the 19th century a 4th room was separated from the main house by a brick wall and stack. The lower end was rebuilt in the mid to late 17th century as a projecting cross-wing with a large gable-end kitchen stack. The building is now two storeys throughout. The rear wall is largely built of stone, including a 16th-century lateral stack to the hall, which became redundant when a larger stone lateral stack was built on the front, likely in the 17th century. A 16th-century stair turret is located to the rear of the inner room. The front has five windows, comprising uniform, large 2- or 3-light, chamfered-mullion windows, probably dating from the 19th century; the window to the left of the stack retains a 19th-century glazing pattern. A passage door is located to the left of the stack, protected by a simple concrete-tiled roof porch. An opposing rear door has been blocked. Two ground floor windows on the extreme right are blocked, but one and both those opposite in the rear wall retain late 16th-century 2-light, oak mullioned window frames, chamfered with step stops. Window openings inside the kitchen wing have ovolo-moulded lintels. Internally, most original features are obscured, but the roof of the main block is supported by side-pegged jointed cruck trusses, blackened by smoke over the hall. A 16th-century roof and framed partitions remain above the inner room and east end, while the kitchen wing has a 17th-century roof. The kitchen and hall floors have 19th-century scroll-stopped beams. This is a typical, multi-phase Devon farmhouse demonstrating a layered history of development.