Coulscott Farmhouse

Coulscott Farmhouse comprises two ranges, a rear section dating to the 17th century and a main range built in the early 19th century. The building is constructed of rendered stone rubble, with a slate roof featuring gable end brick stacks to the front range, and an asbestos slate roof with a rebuilt stone rubble stack to the left gable end of the rear range.

Originally, the rear range was the main farmhouse and was converted to service use when the symmetrical front range was added. The layout of the original farmhouse is not fully clear due to later alterations, but it likely consisted of a two- or possibly three-room plan with a cross-passage. The left end contained a kitchen with a dairy outshut and a rear stair projection. A blocked doorway, with a deep embrasure, suggests the former location of the cross-passage, and the hall, which retains part of a fireplace from a demolished stack, is situated to the right. The hall was subsequently divided into two rooms in the 19th century. It is unclear whether the large, unheated service room at the right end, which has gable-ended steps to a loft above, is a 19th-century addition or a rebuilding of the original room.

The front range, which is two storeys high, has a three-window symmetrical facade. It features four-paned sash windows and a central stone rubble porch with a gabled slate roof and quoin pilasters. The rear range mainly retains 19th-century window openings.

Inside the original range, there are two scroll-stopped chamfered cross beams and a bressumer towards the lower end. Most 18th- and early 19th-century panelled or ledged plank doors remain. A dog-leg staircase with turned balusters and square section newels is located in the rear stair projection. The dairy retains slate slabs. The roof structure in the original section dates to the late 17th or 18th century and features straight principals with halved and lapped collars. The front range includes a 19th-century staircase with turned balusters, newels with acorn finials, a moulded string, and a handrail. Reeded doorcases with roundels are found in the principal rooms, and the right-hand room features acanthus plasterwork cornices and centre rose and panelled window shutters.