Medlake Farmhouse

Medlake Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed farmhouse, likely built in the early to mid-16th century. It features plastered cob on rubble footings, with granite stacks topped by 20th-century brick, and a wheat reed thatched roof. The original layout consists of three rooms with a through passage, facing south, and includes an inner room at the eastern end. A 19th-century granary and stores have been added to the service room on the left side. The end stack projects from the inner room, while the hall stack backs onto the passage. There is a cob-walled outshot at the rear of the service room, which has a corrugated iron lean-to roof that was previously thatched.

The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a somewhat balanced four-window front, featuring 19th and 20th-century casements, some of which have glazing bars. The front passage door is located behind a 20th-century glass-sided porch to the left of the center. The granary and stores to the left of the house include a first-floor granary accessed by a flight of granite steps, a small unglazed first-floor window to the left, and a brick-lined doorway next to the stairs. The left end of the granary is slightly recessed and has a doorway, while the end corner is repaired with brick, forming a clasping buttress. The rear elevation is mostly blind, except for a rear passage door and a full-height recess at the right end of the inner room, which may have been for a projecting stair turret.

The interior has not been inspected but is reported to be unmodernised and to contain high-quality 16th-century features. Both sides of the passage are lined with oak plank-and-muntin screens. The hall and inner room fireplaces are said to be exposed, and the hall is noted to include a beam carved with repeating fern leaf motifs, similar to those found on the early 16th-century wall plate of the Church of St Andrew in Hittisleigh. It is also said that the original roof structure still exists.