Underhill

Underhill is a farmhouse that was later converted into two cottages and is now a single house. It has a core dating back to the 16th century, with improvements made in the 17th century. The building was divided in the late 18th to early 19th century and was united and modernized in the 1970s. The structure features plastered cob on rubble footings, with rubble and cob stacks topped with 19th-century brick. The gable-ended roof is covered with pantiles, which were formerly thatch.

The house has undergone significant alterations and has a three-room-and-through-passage plan. It is now two storeys high and faces east. There is a cob stack in the north gable and a stone axial stack that serves both the central and southern rooms, blocking the former passage and creating the current lobby entrance arrangement. There is also a secondary front door leading to the northern room.

The front of the house has five windows, primarily consisting of 19th and 20th-century wooden casements of various sizes and irregular placements, most of which have glazing bars. The left-end first-floor window is a 17th-century four-light oak frame with chamfered mullions. The large lobby door is situated under a 20th-century hood. Inside, there are 17th-century oak doorframes with chamfered surrounds and scroll stops leading from the lobby to the southern and central rooms. The southern room features a stone fireplace with an oak lintel that is also chamfered with scroll stops and a 16th-century cross beam that is chamfered with step stops. The stone fireplace in the central room has been partly rebuilt and includes a large late 18th to early 19th-century brick bread oven. The northern gable-end fireplace is a 20th-century rebuild. The roof is mainly from the 18th century but includes remnants of a 16th-century smoke-blackened, side-pegged jointed cruck truss over the hall. The 17th-century lobby-entrance plan is considered unusual for Devon.