Home House

This is a house likely dating to the early 16th century, or possibly earlier. It is constructed of whitewashed rendered rubble and cob, with a thatched roof; the roof has a gable end to the right and a half-hipped section to the left. There is a stack with a dripstone and a smaller brick stack at the right gable end. A large hall stack is located at the rear and is enclosed within an outshut. The house probably began as a two-cell layout with an open hall and a through-passage, and a parlour with a loft above at the upper end. It is two storeys high and has a three-window facade with 2-light casement windows; these consist of two similar casements each side of a centrally positioned porch with turned wooden columns on a rubble base, supporting a hipped slate canopy. A half-glazed panelled door serves as the entrance. A two-storey outshut is situated at the rear, with a tarred slate roof and an early plank door. Inside, chamfered beams and a fireplace lintel are present, along with some original fittings in the hall. Moulded plasterwork featuring roundels and initialled “M P P 1721” is found in a chamber above the hall. A closed truss with a lath and plaster partition spans the axial stack. Two smoke-blackened rafters are visible above the hall, although the roof was likely re-roofed in the 18th century.