Town Buildings Including Out Buildings To North-East

This is a 16th-century house that was significantly altered in the 17th century and extended in the 19th century. It is a town farmhouse, with outbuildings to the north-east. The construction is of plastered cob and rubble, with rubble stacks, one topped with 20th-century brick. The roof is slate and corrugated asbestos (formerly thatched). The main part of the house is a three-room-and-through-passage plan, facing south-east, with an inner room at the left (south-west) end. There is an end stack to the inner room and a large projecting front lateral stack to the hall. A newel turret projects to the rear of the hall. A one-room addition was built in the 19th century to the left (south-west) end, and a stable with a hayloft was built on the right (north-east) end. The main house has a four-window front, with late 19th and 20th-century casement windows; the two left first-floor windows are gabled. A 19th-century plank door is located to the right of the hall stack, leading to the passage. A four-panel door has been inserted into the inner room. The hall stack likely contains the original chimney shaft, which is now plastered and of considerable girth. The roof is gable-ended. A small addition at the left end has a one-window front of late 19th-century casements, and the stable at the right end has a window and a hayloft loading hatch. The interior is of good quality. A 16th-century oak plank-and-muntin screen divides the passage from the hall, with chamfered and roll-stopped muntins on either side. The chamber above the passage juts out over the lower side of the hall, supported by a soffit-chamfered bressumer with pyramid stops, dating to the late 16th or early 17th century. The hall beam has been plastered over, and the fireplace is blocked. An oak bench sits against the cob cross wall at the upper end of the hall; it has an unusual back of small fielded panels with mitred muntins and moulded surrounds. King posts divide the panelling into three bays, rising above the top and featuring carved and crocketted finials; shaped boards fill the spaces between, and one post is inscribed with the date 1709. A cream-colored oven alcove is in the rear wall. The service room contains a late 17th-century chamfered axial beam with straight cut stops and remains furnished as a 19th-century dairy. While the roof is not accessible, lower parts of a 16th-century side-pegged jointed cruck truss are visible over the hall. Other early features are likely to survive throughout the house.