South Coombe Farmhouse And Barns

South Coombe Farmhouse and barns is a farmhouse with associated farm buildings, dating to the 17th century, with substantial alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries. The core of the farmhouse is 17th century, with refenestration in the 18th century and internal divisions added during the same period. A catslide lean-to was added to the rear in the 18th century, and a wing was added to the right in the 19th century. The farmhouse is constructed of cob, with a thatched roof, and stacks with brick shafts. Attached ranges of outbuildings, dating to the 18th and 19th centuries, flank the farmhouse on either side. These are constructed of rubble and cob, with slate and bitumenised slate roofs, and some corrugated asbestos sheeting.

The farmhouse originally had a single room depth, now comprising three rooms. The principal entrance leads into a lobby with a central stack providing heating to the rooms on either side, which are arranged back-to-back around a large single chimney. To the right of the right-hand room is a kitchen, featuring a large gable-end fireplace with a wide hearth. During the 18th century, when the front was refenestrated, a range of lean-tos was added to the rear. A dog-leg staircase was inserted into these lean-tos in the 19th century, and the first floor was divided into three small rooms with a rear corridor. Farm buildings, added in the 18th and 19th centuries at right angles to the front of the farmhouse, include a hay barn to the right and stables and cattle sheds to the left.

The exterior is two storeys high, with four windows featuring 12-pane C20 casements, replacing earlier horizontally sliding sashes from the 18th century. A door on the left side of the front has a 3:3 panelled door and a ledge hood supported on shaped wooden brackets. The hay barn to the right has a large door opening with paired plank doors, and hay loft openings with plank doors on either side.

The interior largely retains 18th-century fittings. The kitchen on the extreme right has a large open fireplace with an 18th-century surround and a bracketed mantle, with a fitted gun bracket above. The ceiling in this room is plastered and it lacks exposed beams. The centre room has a 19th-century chimneypiece and a cupboard with an 18th-century door. The left room has an 18th-century chimneypiece. The roof to the extreme left shows 18th-century joinery, including straight principals lapped and pegged to a collar, two rows of trenched purlins, and a ridge diagonally set with a mortise to the principals. The remainder of the roof was not visible, but appears similar, with straight principals visible in the bedrooms. Access to the roof space was not possible.