Cobley Farmhouse

Cobley Farmhouse is a farmhouse with a core dating back to the 16th century, which has undergone significant alterations during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. It is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with rubble stacks topped by 19th-century brick chimney shafts. The roof, originally thatched, is now covered with slate from the 19th century. The building was originally designed as a three-room-and-through-passage-plan house facing southeast, featuring a former inner room at the right (northeastern) end. It has end stacks for the former inner and service rooms, along with a rear lateral stack that projects from the hall. An outshot at the rear of the hall and inner room includes a truncated and disused newel stairwell, while a 19th-century stair now blocks the rear end of the passage.

The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a five-window front, with small 19th-century 16-pane sash windows in the two right-side windows and late 19th to early 20th-century casements with glazing bars on the left (service end). The roof is gable-ended, and the hall stack features a diagonal chimney shaft.

Inside, the farmhouse primarily showcases features from the 18th and 19th centuries, including plain chamfered crossbeams in all ground floor rooms. The hall and inner room have rubble fireplaces with plain-finished oak lintels, while the service room contains a 19th-century brick fireplace with a reused 16th-century chamfered and pyramid-stopped floor beam as the lintel. The 17th-century roof over the hall is supported by uncollared trusses with threaded purlins, and the roofs over the service and inner rooms consist of 19th-century trusses made from reused medieval sooted timbers. Some features from the 16th or 17th centuries may still be present behind later plaster.