Ennerleigh Farmhouse

Farmhouse, likely dating from the early 17th century or earlier, extensively remodelled in the late 17th century with a subsequent 18th-century extension. The construction is primarily of colourwashed and rendered stone and cob, with a slate roof hipped at the ends of the main range and corrugated iron and tile to the former servants' wing. There are rear lateral stacks to the main range and wing, a blocked stack with a stone shaft projecting through the roof of the wing, and an end stack to the wing.

The building’s layout reflects a complex evolution. The original core appears to have been a two-room plan running east to west, potentially the hall and inner room of a larger house, with the former lower end now absent. A significant late 17th-century remodelling and extension added a three-storey, single-room plan wing at right angles to the hall, which was raised to three storeys and re-roofed on a north-south axis. A rear right wing—probably an 18th-century addition and formerly used as servants' quarters, now an outbuilding—is set at right angles to the putative inner room.

The two- and three-storey facade has an asymmetrical arrangement. A 20th-century glazed front door, under a slated porch hood, is situated to the left of the two-storey block, alongside two casement windows with glazing bars. The front return of the three-storey wing features a 20th-century two-leaf glazed door, a first-floor casement similar to those on the two-storey block, and a small second-floor casement window.

Inside, the rear ground-floor room of the three-storey wing has an intersecting beamed ceiling with true mitres at the intersections, with chamfered beams, some featuring unusually oblique angles to the jambs, and a timber lintel. A good late 17th-century staircase is located near this room, featuring turned balusters to the second and third flights and fielded panelling to the first flights. Contemporary two-panel doors are found on the second storey. The main two-storey block includes an open fireplace with a bread oven and a chamfered scroll-stopped lintel. The blocked internal stack in the three-storey wing and its projecting stone shaft have an unclear original function in the current plan.