Higher Neopardy

Farmhouse, now two houses, originally three cottages. The building dates back to the 16th century with improvements made in the 17th century, further extended and divided in the 18th century, and modernised in the mid-20th century. It is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with stone stacks set with brick and a thatched roof. Originally, it comprised three rooms with a through passage and a service room at the east end. A possible 17th-century service wing sits at the rear of the passage. In the 18th century, a room was added to the west, and the entire house was altered and divided. Number 1 is now located in the 18th-century extension and the inner room, while Number 2 occupies the hall, passage, and service end. Gable end stacks and a hall stack back onto the passage. The front of the building has six windows, which are 19th and 20th-century casements of varying sizes and in an irregular arrangement, most with glazing bars. Three half-dormers are visible under the thatch on the left-hand side, with the two leftmost dormers featuring small rectangular panes from the 19th century. A modern glass-sided conservatory with a monopitch thatched roof obscures the former passage door. A former cottage door is at the right end of the building, and a door to Number 1 is on the right side of the 18th-century extension. The hall stack features an original chimney shaft from volcanic ashlar, with a moulded coping, now raised in 19th-century brick. Inside, an oak plank-and-muntin screen is located on the lower side of the passage. The mid-17th-century service room was remodelled as a parlour, featuring plain cross beams intended for plaster cladding and a high-quality volcanic ashlar fireplace with an oak lintel and an ogee-moulded surround, now with an inserted 18th-century brick side oven. The hall fireplace is from the 16th century, also with volcanic ashlar, a chamfered oak lintel, and was initially floored in the late 16th or early 17th century with a cross beam featuring a deep chamfer and stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. Only the head beam of the upper end hall screen remains. The small inner room contains a massive, plainly-finished axial beam. An exposed side-pegged jointed cruck truss is visible over the hall-inner room partition, though the roof over the hall is inaccessible. The roof over the service end appears to have A-frame trusses from the mid-17th century. The western extension has a crudely-finished 18th-century truss, a contemporary fireplace with a side oven, and a presumably reused chamfered and step-stopped cross beam.