Pilemoor And Adjoining Outbuilding

This is a former farmhouse, dating back to the 16th century, but significantly altered in the late 20th century. It is built of colourwashed rendered stone rubble, with some cob to the rear wall of the adjoining outbuilding. The house has a cedar shingle roof, formerly thatched, hipped at the left end and gabled at the right end, with two rear lateral stacks; the adjoining outbuilding to the right has a lower, tiled roof. The original layout appears to have been a single-depth main range with an unheated entrance room containing the staircase at the left end, and a larger room to the right (formerly two rooms) with two rear lateral stacks, one of which is now blocked. An outbuilding, slightly set back, was evidently part of the original house, and a rear wing forms a T-shaped plan. Later alterations have largely obscured the building's development. The house has an asymmetrical four-window front, with a 20th-century gabled porch on posts to the left and an asymmetrical garden door to the right. It features 20th-century timber casement windows. The adjoining outbuilding has two doorways on the front and a 20th-century window. Inside, the centre room of the house has a high-quality intersecting moulded beamed ceiling. A fragment of a plain plank and muntin screen remains between two rooms on the left-hand side. The outbuilding has moulded cross beams, of a different design and earlier date. The roof structure comprises pegged X-apex trusses of various types, likely dating from the 18th century. A single charred purlin, re-used over the main range, suggests the building experienced a fire at some point. Surviving fragments of the richly moulded muntins from the former screen are incorporated into an outbuilding - two muntins, placed back to back, have been used as a prop within the house, along the line of the former partition between the two rooms on the right-hand side.