Middle Henstill Farmhouse Including Adjoining Farmbuildings To East

A farmhouse with adjoining granary and cider-house, dating from the mid-to-late 17th century, with extensions and refurbishment in the mid-to-late 19th century. The farmhouse is constructed of plastered cob and rubble, including some 19th-century brick, with rubble and brick stacks and a thatched roof. It has an L-shaped layout, with the main block facing south and containing a three-room plan, a cross passage to the west of the centre, and a kitchen block at a right angle behind the left-hand room. Axial and lateral stacks are present, along with cob outshots to the rear. The farmhouse is two storeys high with attics. It has a four-window front with late 19th-century casement windows with glazing bars. There are two doorways: a 19th-century six-panel door with panelled reveals and a simple 20th-century porch to the left of the centre, and a secondary door with a 20th-century glass-sided porch at the right end. Above each door is a three-light window; other windows are four-light. The roof is hipped at each end with dormers containing mid-19th-century horizontal sliding sashes with small panes. A room was added to the right end in the 19th century, altering the formerly symmetrical three-window facade. At the same time, the kitchen was raised from one to two storeys using brick. An exposed cob wall to the rear outshot includes a row of 12 pigeon holes. Original interior features are largely hidden by 19th-century fittings. A blocked, massive kitchen store of volcanic stone contains a low, segmental brick arch replacing a lintel, and remains of a smoking chamber to the left. The ground floor has plain chamfered beams and the roof features A-frame trusses with pegged lap-jointed collars. A slate-roofed granary and cider-house adjoin the farmhouse to the east, facing into the rear courtyard. The cob granary has a ground-floor door on the right and an external stone staircase to the first-floor door at the right end. The cider-house, adjoining at a right angle to the north, is rubble constructed with brick dressings and has a ground-floor doorway to the right and an external granite staircase leading to a first-floor loading bay. It contains a part-floored apple store and remains of a cider press. The site is associated with a medieval estate that gave its name to one of 18 tithings of Crediton.