Middlecott Farmhouse

Middlecott Farmhouse is a farmhouse with an attached cottage, likely dating back to the 16th century. It has been extended and remodelled in the 17th and 19th centuries. The construction is primarily painted rendered stone rubble and cob, with the lower end partly rebuilt in brick. The roof is slate, hipped at the right end and gabled at the left. There are brick stacks at the left gable and axially, along with a stone rubble hall stack.

The original layout appears to have been a three-room plan with a wide cross passage, with a lower end to the right incorporating an outbuilding. The cross-passage was divided, creating a small, unheated rear room, a hall with an axial stack backing onto the passage, and a narrow heated inner room. Around the late 17th century, a large parlour was added, previously heated by a now-demolished rear lateral stack. In the 19th century, a straight-run staircase was inserted into the former inner room, and a cottage extension was added at the left end, creating an unusually long, single-room deep range.

The exterior has an 8-window front. The cottage extension has a virtually symmetrical three-window front with a central plank door. The central section features three 19th-century 3-light casements, a plank door with a bracketted hood to the former inner room, and a stone rubble porch with a gabled slate roof and an old plank inner door to the cross passage. Other windows include a 19th-century 2-light window and a plank door to the outbuilding.

Inside, the hall has chamfered cross ceiling beams with hollow step stops. A 19th-century chimneypiece conceals the original hall fireplace lintel. A shoulder-headed timber doorway separates the hall from the original inner room. The roof structure was apparently replaced in the 18th or 19th century, with rough straight principals visible. Solid wall partitions exist between the hall and the original inner room. The hall and lower service end have remained relatively unaltered in the 20th century.