Gribbles Farmhouse Including Cob Wall Adjoining To South

Gribbles Farmhouse, which includes a cob wall adjoining to the south, is a farmhouse built in the late 17th to early 18th century. It was refurbished and partly rebuilt in 1985. The structure features plastered cob on rubble footings and plastered concrete block where it was rebuilt. There is a cob or stone rubble stack with a 19th and 20th-century brick chimney shaft, and the roof is thatched.

The main block has a two-room plan facing south, with a central entrance hall and stair. The larger room on the right (east) has a projecting end stack. A service block at the rear of the left room has mostly been rebuilt in 1985. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has an irregular three-window front with 20th-century replacement casements of various sizes. There is a 20th-century door to the left of centre, accompanied by a half-hipped thatch-roofed porch added in 1985. The roof is hipped at both ends, and the roof of the rear block is also hipped.

Inside, the farmhouse underwent extensive renovation in 1985, but many of the existing late 17th to early 18th-century timbers were retained, even in the rear block where the outer cob walls were completely replaced. The main beams are plain chamfered, with an axial beam in the left room and crossbeams in the right room. The original fireplace in the right room is blocked. Although the roof was not inspected, it is said that the original roof survives in the main block.

Extending south from the left end of the front is a high plastered cob wall on rubble footings with thatch coping, which separates the front garden from the road. Gribbles Farmhouse, located about 200 to 300 metres up the valley from the hamlet of Coleford, enhances the picturesque quality of the hamlet as viewed from the approach from Crediton.