Pulfordsware Farmhouse

Pulfordsware Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from the 16th century or early 17th century, with later modifications in the 18th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with rubble stacks that are topped with 19th and 20th-century brick, and it has a turnerised slate roof that was originally thatched. The building has been significantly altered and features a three-room-and-through-passage layout, facing south, with a small inner room at the left (west) end. There are rear lateral stacks for the hall and the service end room, the latter of which projects. A 19th-century stair turret projects from the rear of the passage, and there are outshots at the back. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a regular but not symmetrical four-window front, featuring 20th-century casements without glazing bars, including a single-storey canted bay window at the service end room on the right. There is a late 19th-century six-panel door to the former passage, set roughly in the centre. The gable-ended roof has a late 19th-century iron gutter on brackets along the front eaves. The left (west) end shows remnants of long walls, indicating that the building may have originally extended further in that direction. The rear outshots have a monopitch lean-to roof that continues the main roof pitch but at a lower angle.

Inside, the hall to the left of the passage features two late 16th-century to early 17th-century crossbeams with unstopped double ovolo mouldings. In the service end room, one crossbeam from the late 16th century to early 17th century has chamfers with keeled step stops, while the other is a rough finished replacement from either the 18th or 19th century. The fireplaces are blocked, and other early features likely remain hidden behind 19th and 20th-century plaster. The roof structure is a mid to late 18th-century A-frame truss with pegged lap-jointed collars and X-apexes, enhanced by ridge plates.