Muxeries Farmhouse

Muxeries Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating primarily from the 18th and early 19th centuries, with possible origins in an earlier structure. It is located on the northwest edge of Witheridge. The main, central portion of the building is constructed of rubble stone, with a roughcast and whitewashed front elevation, while the rear displays brick dressings. The slate roof is coated with bitumen, and there are two squat brick stacks.

To the west, an earlier cob kitchen wing likely formed the lower end of a previous house on the site. An eastern section, built as a malthouse in the second half of the 19th century, is also of rubble stone with brick dressings and a rendered front elevation.

The main part of the farmhouse is two storeys high. The central doorway features a six-panelled door with glazed upper panels. The front elevation has irregular window placement, incorporating 12- and 16-pane double-hung sash windows. Casement windows are present at the western end of the single-storey wing, and at the rear of the building. A transition to three storeys is apparent at the east end, with three vertically arranged window openings on the east elevation - the upper and lower being casements, the central one with horizontal sliding sashes. The two-storey, two-bay western wing is lower than the main range and features a small 20th-century outshut extension to the front.

The interior of the main part of the building consists of a single room depth. A large room extends to the right of the central entrance hall, with a stack backing on to the hall, and a smaller room to the left. The earlier, western wing retains an original five-bay tie-beam roof. The house incorporates an internal well shaft, widened in the 1950s, which provides the domestic water supply.

Muxeries Farm is believed to have originated in the 18th century, possibly built upon an earlier core. The western end of the house is the oldest portion, likely forming the lower end of a predecessor building. The main section of the house was built in the early 19th century. Ordnance Survey maps from 1889 and 1905 indicate minimal changes to the building’s footprint since the late 19th century, aside from a small rear extension. The eastern end was constructed as a malthouse in the 19th century before 1889, later converted to residential use during a reconfiguration in the 1950s. The building has undergone considerable internal alteration over time.