Farmers

This is a detached house, originally a farmhouse and until recently a public house called 'The Farmers' Arms. It dates to the mid-16th century, with later alterations. The external walls are of roughcast cob on stone footings, with a gable-ended pantiled roof. The original plan comprised three rooms, with a through-passage. The left-hand service wing is jettied over the hall, which was probably open to the roof originally, but was heated by a Beer stone fireplace backing onto the passage. The inner room was of two storeys from the start and is divided from the hall by a full-height partition, with a stack at the end providing heating. The service wing has been altered, and the present stack, rising behind the roof ridge, is a late 19th-century addition. All stacks have rendered shafts.

The front of the house is irregular, with a late 19th-century rebuilding of the hall front wall, slightly recessed, featuring two 2-light casement windows to the first floor, a 3-light window, and a glazed door on the ground floor. The inner room has only a 3-light ground-floor casement window. The right-hand end has two small inglenook windows and an early 19th-century 3-light casement window with 8 leaded panes per light. The left-hand end features a 19th-century 2-light casement window to the first floor. A reused 16th-century square-headed 4-light window, with ogivally headed lights, chamfered mullions, and a concrete sill (the original sill being missing) is also present.

Inside, a plank and muntin screen divides the service wing from the passage; the muntins are chamfered and stopped, with carpenter's mitres on the passage side only. The two chamfered axial ceiling beams of the service-end room rest on corbels, one of which is part of the same timber as one of the muntins. A bulge in the cob wall indicates the position of the original winder stairs. The rear doorway of the passage is chamfered with a shouldered arch. A short section of plank and muntin screen exists between the hall stack and the entrance from the passage into the hall. The hall has a chamfered cross beam with step stops supporting the jetty. The fireplace features chamfered Beer stone jambs and a timber lintel with hollow step stops. A chamfered archway between the hall and the inner room suggests an original screen. The inner room has a roughly chamfered cross ceiling beam, and the fireplace has been largely rebuilt. The roof comprises three trusses, one certainly and one probably jointed crucks; the truss above the hall and inner-room division is closed, exhibiting Alcock type F2 apex carpentry. All roof timbers are clean.