North Bradbury Farmhouse

North Bradbury Farmhouse is a Grade II listed farmhouse, likely built in the early 17th century, with extensions added to the left end in the 18th and 19th centuries. It features a slate roof with gable ends and a tall hall stack positioned towards the front, which has a projecting bread oven. There are brick stacks at each gable end.

The original layout was probably a two-room and cross-passage plan, with the hall heated by a former gable end stack on the left and a smaller unheated room to the right of the passage, which contains the staircase. The original staircase was likely located in a stair turret at the rear of the hall, which would have been removed when the dairy outshut was added. In the 18th century, a one-room extension was added to the left end, featuring a fireplace that shares the hall stack. A winder staircase is located in the rear left-hand corner. In the 19th century, the house was extended again at the left end, resulting in an overall plan that now consists of four rooms and a stair hall passage in line.

The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a five-window range. The upper storey features early 20th-century fenestration with two two-light and two three-light casements, all with three panes per light, except for the centre window, which is a later 20th-century addition. The ground floor windows are also later 20th-century replacements. A timber porch with a slate gabled roof leads to a plank inner door.

Inside, the hall has a chamfered and stopped bressumer and a cross ceiling beam. There is a 19th-century grate in the fireplace, with the outline of the original lintel visible above. A blocked doorway at the rear likely relates to the site of the former stair turret and a blocked doorway in the rear wall at first-floor level. The room to the right of the passage has a boxed-in cross ceiling beam. The dairy features a flagstone floor.

The roof structure includes solid cob walls that rise to the apex at the left end of the hall and between the two added rooms. There are two 17th-century trusses with principals that have short curved feet over the original range, cranked morticed and tenoned collars, threaded purlins, and a ridge purlin, with no signs of smoke-blackening. The 19th-century roof trusses are over the two left-end rooms.