South Cobbaton Farmhouse

South Cobbaton Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, although earlier fabric may be hidden within the structure. The walls are built of rendered stone rubble with cob to the upper storey, and the roof is covered with asbestos slate, hipped at the left end. A rendered stack is located at the right end of the main range and to the gable of the rear kitchen wing, featuring a large, partly demolished bread oven. A tall, unrendered stack with offsets stands laterally in the hall.

The original plan consisted of three rooms and a through-passage, which leads to a gable-ended, right-angled rear kitchen wing of two storeys. A former access point from the through-passage to the hall has been blocked and a stairway inserted in the passage. The lower section, formerly a cider house with servants' accommodation over, has been incorporated into the dwelling, except for a short, gable-ended potato store with a granary or apple loft above at the front. A similar wing at the upper end was demolished in the early 20th century. The upper end has a heated inner room with a central passage running to the gable, dividing it from the former salting house, which is now a bathroom.

The front façade has a four-window range of 2-light casements, with two panes per light. A 3-light hall window to the left of the stack is flanked by a cross-passage doorway to the left and an inserted entrance doorway to the right, providing access to the hall. External stone steps lead to a plank door at the gable end of the granary/potato store wing. A 20th-century lean-to is attached to the right gable end. At the rear, a two-storey outshut incorporates a stair turret with two 2-light casements.

Inside, the hall features roughly stop-chamfered beams. A blocked doorway in the lower end contains an inserted carved lintel. The upper end of the hall has C17 scroll-stopped door surrounds to the inner room, with a 2-panelled door, and at the head of the staircase to the rear outshut. Keel-stopped chamfered beams are present in the inner room. Concealed plasterwork, on a cob partition rising to the roof apex, is said to exist in the chamber over the inner room. A similar, thicker cob partition separates the hall and lower end. The roof structure comprises single trusses over the inner room and two each over the hall and lower end, all dating back to the 17th century. These have lap-jointed collars, two tiers of threaded purlins, and a ridge purlin, with some purlins having been removed. A single 17th-century truss is found in the kitchen wing. The 20th-century roof structure is raised above the original 17th-century timber, leaving the latter largely intact.