Hutswell

Hutswell is a former farmhouse dating from around the early 17th century, with possible remodeling of an earlier building, some rebuilding in the late 18th century, and late 20th-century repairs. The walls are colourwashed rendered cob and stone rubble, and it has a thatched roof with a plain ridge, hipped on the left end and half-hipped on the right end. A stack is located at the left end of the main block, and an axial stack with a stone shaft is present.

The house originally comprised a single depth, four rooms wide. The left-hand room is a converted outbuilding with a tiled lean-to roof. The three right-hand rooms form the original early 17th-century three-room plan house, with evidence of a former cross or through passage to the left of center. The rear of the passage was later converted into a pantry and is now incorporated into the left-hand (lower end) room. The hall stack is backed onto the former passage. The lower end room may originally have been unheated, as was a narrow inner room. A plank and muntin screen is located at the higher end of the hall. This screen appears to be from the 16th century, and it is more finely finished on the inner room side than the hall side.

The exterior has an asymmetrical three-window front, featuring a 20th-century lean-to porch with a tiled roof. The windows are generally 3-light timber casements with glazing bars, except for a 17th-century timber mullioned 3-light window on the ground floor to the right. A rear doorway leads into the inner room. Inside the hall, there is an open fireplace featuring a timber lintel and bread oven, and a chamfered scroll-stopped cross beam. There is also a plank and muntin oak screen at the higher end of the hall, with chamfered muntins stopped on the inner room face only. A "Darey door" is painted above the doorway within the screen to the inner room.

The roof retains portions of side-pegged jointed crucks, which are visible below the 20th-century roof. The foot of the right-end cruck is visible, extending to the stone rubble footings of the right-end wall.