East Liscombe Farmhouse Including Outbuilding Attached At West End

East Liscombe Farmhouse, including the outbuilding attached at the west end, is a building of probable late 16th-century origin, largely rebuilt in the late 17th century, with extensions in the 18th century and remodelling in the 19th, and window replacement in the 20th. The farmhouse is constructed of painted stone rubble and some cob, with a slate roof featuring gable ends. There are brick stacks to the left end, an axial brick stack, and a stone rubble stack at the right end.

The building’s plan reflects its complex development over time. An unusual feature is that the finest 16th-century fabric, a moulded framed ceiling, is located within the adjoining outbuilding, specifically in the section connected to the main range, which was originally used as a cider house before conversion to living space around 1984-85. The ceiling appears to be original to the cider house and was largely rebuilt when the walls were subsequently underpinned elsewhere. The main farmhouse core appears to be a late 17th-century three-room plan, comprising a parlour at the left, a small unheated middle room (likely a buttery), and a hall/kitchen to the right. An axial passage at the rear of the buttery and parlour provides access to the former cider house. A small leanto stair outshot to the rear of the middle room houses the staircase. In the 18th century, a new kitchen was added to the right end, with its own external access and a staircase at the rear of the former gable end stack. The walls appear to have been largely rebuilt, and the roof structure replaced, in the 19th century.

The exterior has a symmetrical appearance with a six-window range and 20th-century windows. There are three plank doors to the ground floor. The attached outbuilding has a window opening to the left of its plank door.

Inside, the outbuilding contains the notable 16th-century moulded framed ceiling. Originally consisting of nine panels, three at the rear were removed in the 1980s. The main beams are richly moulded, with squared joists aligned differently in each panel, intended to be exposed. Unusual features include the chamfered front beam on the two front left-hand panels and a thicker joist that may have served as a structural head for a ladder arrangement. The parlour has a small fireplace and an axial beam with rough joists. The middle room has a peaked-headed doorway to the rear passage, cut to allow passage of barrels. A late 17th-century staircase is located in the rear outshut. The hall/kitchen has a boxed-in cross ceiling beam, a large fireplace with a replaced lintel, a creamery, and an old bench. The added kitchen on the right end has a high chamfered fireplace lintel and roughly chamfered cross ceiling beams. Most 19th-century plank doors remain throughout. The roof structure is largely 19th-century, but vestiges of two earlier trusses, probably late 17th-century, survive, showing rough straight principals and purlins resting on the backs of the principals.