Lower Westwood Farmhouse

Lower Westwood Farmhouse is a farmhouse that features a date plaque from 1659, although it may have an earlier core and has undergone significant alterations in the 20th century. The building is constructed of plastered cob, rubble, and brick, with stone or brick stacks topped with 17th and 19th-century brick, and it has a thatched roof.

The farmhouse appears to have a much-altered three-room and through passage plan, with an inner room located to the southeast (left of the front). It has rear lateral stacks for the end rooms and a large front lateral stack for the hall. The structure is gable-ended and has two storeys. The front features an irregular arrangement of five windows, which are 20th-century wooden casements. The outer rooms have one window for the inner room on the left and two windows for the service room on the right, both of which are recessed behind the end walls and hall under deep eaves.

There are doors at each end of the building, with the left door located behind a flat-roofed 20th-century porch that has continuous iron-framed glazing. The original door has been blocked and replaced by a window immediately to the right of the hall. The hall section has two windows and a central stack with what is presumably a 19th-century oven projection. At the top of the chimney, there is a 17th-century divided brick shaft beneath a 19th-century top, which includes a Salcombe sandstone plaque inscribed with the date 1659 at the top, the initials I.C at the bottom, and two lines of arcane symbols in between. The right end wall features weatherboarding, suggesting that it may have originally had a hipped end.

Inside, only plain chamfered crossbeams are visible in the hall, while the rest of the interior is concealed behind 19th and 20th-century plaster. The roof is not accessible.