Buttisfar Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Possibly dating back to the 16th century, with early 17th-century improvements, a major refurbishment in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and a 19th-century dairy addition. The construction is plastered cob on rubble footings, with stone rubble stacks topped with brick (dating from circa 1984), and a thatched roof. The house may have originated as a 16th-century three-room-and-through-passage plan, initially facing north with an inner room at the right (west) end, though the original layout is obscured by later alterations. The main house now has a three-room plan with a lobby entrance positioned to the left of centre. An axial service stack appears to block the former passage. A lateral stack projects to the rear of the hall, and there's an end stack to the inner room. The inner room looks like an 18th-century extension. A 19th-century lean-to dairy sits on the left (east) end. The building is two storeys high, with a storage basement under the inner room. The irregular four-window front features a tripartite sash window with a central 12-pane sash to the inner room, and a 12-pane (4/8) window above. The remaining windows are various 19th-century casements with glazing bars. The front door, positioned to the left of centre, has an early 17th-century oak frame with an ovolo-hollow chamfered surround and worn stops, and a contemporary plank door with ovolo-moulded coverstrips forming a 12-panel front. It is sheltered by a late 19th-century timber gabled porch with trellis-work sides, openwork spandrels, shaped bargeboards, and a corrugated iron roof. The main roof is hipped to the right and half-hipped to the left. On the rear, a hall window appears to be blocking an early 17th-century oak doorframe with a similar moulding to the front doorframe. The interior predominantly displays features from the late 17th and early 18th centuries. All rooms have plainly cut crossbeams; the service room beam is square in section with upended plank joists, the hall beam is chamfered, and the inner room’s beam is likely a 19th-century replacement. The basement has a chamfered crossbeam. All original fireplaces are now blocked. The hall includes some reset 17th-century oak small-field panelling. The roof structure consists of A-frame trusses with pegged lap-jointed collars.