Remberton Farmhouse

Remberton Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse, or possibly earlier, with later extensions and alterations. It is constructed of cob with a stone plinth, and has been plastered, all under a gabled-end roof covered with synthetic slate. Originally, the farmhouse was arranged with a four-room, through-passage plan, with a further extension set at an obtuse angle to the left. The two higher rooms at the end were likely subdivided. There are three axial stacks – one on the left side, possibly formerly an end stack which heats the room to the left of the through-passage; a central stack above the division of the two rooms to the right of the passage, heating both; and a further end stack heating the room at the lower end of the range, which has since been divided to insert a second cross-passage. All stacks have been rebuilt with brick shafts. The farmhouse is two storeys high. The front elevation has a five-window range, featuring 2 and 3-light casement windows with bars, dating to the 19th and 20th centuries. There are two front entrances, one sheltered by an open gabled porch, and the other beneath a simple leaded canopy. Inside, plank and muntin screens, which are chamfered with run-out stops and carpenter's mitres, are present on either side of the passage. A shorter screen runs between the main axial fireplace and a frame wall, another divides the two lower rooms, and now forms one side of the inserted corridor. The room immediately to the right of the main axial stack retains a chamfered axial beam with step stops, while the two rooms on the left-hand end each have a chamfered cross beam with unusual keeled step stops. An old door frame is located at the rear of the through-passage, and another, chamfered with scroll stops, is at the back of the left-hand room. There is some 18th-century carpentry, most notably a framed staircase with turned balusters and a square newel, housed in its own turret. The roof carpentry is entirely 20th-century, although old roof timbers, of likely 19th-century origin, have been removed and stored in an outbuilding.