Little Champson

Little Champson is a farmhouse that may have been divided, dating from the early to mid-17th century, with a likely mid- to late 19th-century outshut addition and remodelled and enlarged in the late 20th century. The building features random stone rubble on the ground floor and rendered cob on the first floor and rear, topped with a gable-ended corrugated-asbestos roof, which was probably originally thatched. The square stacks made of coursed stone rubble, mostly rendered, have offsets.

The layout follows a three-room plan facing southeast, with a central room containing an axial stack that creates a baffle-entry. To the right is a smaller room with an external end stack, and to the left is a larger room with an external lateral stack at the rear. The house likely started as a two-room end lobby-entry plan, which was extended by one room to the left in the later 17th century, as indicated by the lower eaves and the change in the front wall's line to the left of the doorway. There is a probable 18th or 19th-century outshut addition at the rear of the right-hand two rooms, along with a late 20th-century wing at the rear behind the central axial stack.

The exterior is asymmetrical, featuring four windows on the first floor and three on the ground floor, with late 20th-century two- and three-light wooden casements. There are also modern half-glazed doors positioned between the first and second windows from the left and the first and second windows from the right.

Inside, the left-hand ground-floor room has two chamfered cross beams and a half beam with notched stepped run-out stops, along with an open fireplace at the rear that has stone jambs and a plain wooden lintel. The central ground-floor room includes a plastered spine beam and a half beam at the rear, with an open fireplace featuring stone jambs and a chamfered wooden lintel with run-out stops, although the fireplace has been reduced in width. The right-hand ground-floor room also has a chamfered spine beam and a chamfered half beam at the rear with run-out stops, plus an open fireplace with stone jambs and a wooden lintel that includes run-out stops. The roof is supported by 17th-century principal-rafter trusses.