Lewdon Farmhouse

Lewdon Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, with early 16th century origins that was improved and extended in the 16th and 17th centuries. It features plastered cob on rubble footings, stone and brick stacks, and an asbestos tile roof over thatch. The building has been much altered and consists of a 3-room-and-through-passage layout with an inner room to the northwest and a late 16th to early 17th century block behind the hall. It is two stories tall and faces northeast, displaying an irregular four-window front with 20th century wooden casements of various sizes and a late 18th century six-panel door at the left end leading to the passage. The hall section slightly projects from the main block, and the very small service end is a result of truncation.

The roof is largely inaccessible, but smoke-blackening over the passage and service end indicates that it was originally an early 16th century low partition house with an open hearth fire. Inside, there is a granite hall fireplace with a chamfered oak lintel featuring pyramid stops, and remnants of an oak plank-and-muntin screen, including a flat-arched door leading to the passage. The passage-service end chamber jetties into the hall, with a first-floor low plank-and-muntin screen below plastered framing. At the upper end of the hall, there is an unusual mid-17th century oak plank-and-muntin screen with moulding along the head and chamfered posts with bar-runout stops. The framing above includes a closed tie-beam truss. The inner room contains a chamfered beam with runout stops, while the hall wing has late 16th to early 17th century stopped beams, although the gable fireplace was built of brick and rubble in the 19th century. The inner room was extended and significantly altered in the 19th century. Additionally, there is a granite mounting block set against the 19th century extension to the hall wing at the southwest end.