Westland

Westland is a former farmhouse dating from the late 16th or early 17th century, though it may have been partly rebuilt using earlier material, and was possibly wholly re-roofed in the 18th century. The building is constructed from whitewashed rendered cob and stone, with stone rubble end walls and a thatched roof with a plain ridge, hipped at the ends. It has chimneys comprising a brick-shafted stack at the right end, an axial stack with rendered shaft, and a rear lateral projecting stone stack.

The house has an unusual plan form that suggests a complex building history. It is single-depth and four rooms wide with a later rear dairy added. The arrangement may partly represent a rebuilding using earlier timbers. There is no clear evidence of an early entrance, although there was once a doorway on the front facing a straight stair between the two right-hand rooms. Some evidence suggests the left-hand end has been rebuilt at the front. The two right-hand rooms contain the most finely finished ceiling beams and appear to have been the superior end of the house, despite being physically lower down the slope. The left-hand room is relatively plain with a stair against the rear wall, while the adjoining room, heated from the rear lateral stack, contains 17th-century carpentry details. A 1747 record describes the property as "now divided into 2 parts", and this subdivision may partly explain the peculiar plan form.

The building is two storeys high with an asymmetrical four-window front featuring casement windows with glazing bars. A 20th-century porch occupies the front to the left of centre, and a 20th-century casement window replaces a former doorway next to the ground floor window right. The rear elevation features a concrete block single-storey lean-to dairy with a corrugated iron roof.

Internally, each of the three right-hand rooms displays cross beams of different design. The rightmost room has cross beams with deep hollow chamfers; its right-hand beam is a half-beam that does not butt against the right-hand wall, suggesting either re-siting or wall rebuilding. An unusually small open fireplace with stone rubble jambs and a re-used timber lintel occupies this room. A straight stair rises at the left end, opposite the former external doorway. The next room left has a similar cross beam at the right end but other cross beams are moulded. A half beam at the left end does not butt against the wall, and an open fireplace with a re-used lintel is present. The third room left has chamfered scroll-stopped cross beams, with the chamfers terminating some distance before the junction with the walls, indicating re-use. This room has an open fireplace with a chamfered timber lintel and rear access to the dairy.

Roof space is accessible only above the two left-hand rooms, where apex pegged roof trusses are probably 18th-century in date. Evidence of a shallow drainage gully leads from the left-hand room down the natural slope and into the rear dairy.

According to Margaret C.S. Cruwys, the farmstead is first documented as "Westlake" in 1388 and was sold by the Cruwys Estate to Thomas Wright between 1636 and 1637. In 1747, it was divided into two parts, held by Humphrey Wright and Andrew Ballet.