Sauls Farmhouse

Sauls Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse, possibly with an earlier core, that was renovated in 1975. It features plastered cob on rubble footings, stone rubble stacks topped with 19th-century brick, and a thatched roof. The original layout was a three-room-and-through-passage plan facing southeast, with the former inner room located at the left (southwest) end. There are end stacks for the former inner and service rooms, as well as an axial stack for the hall, which backs onto the former passage. The rear of the passage has been blocked by a staircase added in 1975. A service/dairy block is positioned at right angles behind the inner room, and there is a late 19th to early 20th-century outshot on the right end. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has an irregular four-window front featuring 1975 replacement casements with glazing bars, arranged to create a vague symmetry around the front passage door. The first-floor window at the right end has a thatched gable above it, while the window to the right of centre has a low thatched eyebrow over it. There are French windows at the left end. The passage includes a 1975 plank door and a contemporary monopitch slate-roofed hood. The roof is gable-ended, and the rear block also has 1975 casements, including a gabled half dormer on the outer side, with a hipped end roof. The outshot has a slate roof.

Inside, the farmhouse has been thoroughly modernised, but the basic structure remains intact. The service end room features a soffit-chamfered crossbeam with run-out stops, and the rubble fireplace has ovolo soffit moulding with run-out stops. The hall contains a large stone fireplace with neatly cut front blocks and panels of rustication, while the oak lintel is plainly finished. The first-floor beams and joists were replaced in 1975, and the partition between the hall and inner room was removed at the same time. The roof is likely supported by 17th-century A-frame trusses with pegged lap-jointed collars.