Crosspark Farmhouse

Crosspark Farmhouse is a tenement farmhouse dating back to 1622. It is constructed from rendered stone rubble and cob, with an asbestos slate roof that has a gable end to the main range. A Roman tiled roof covers a single-storey kitchen range at the left end. There’s a tall, rendered hall stack projecting from the front, with offsets and a brick shaft. A smaller, 20th-century brick stack provides heat to the lower end of the house. The main range was originally arranged in a two-room plan, with a stair turret located at the rear of the hall. A matchboarded partition that created a cross-passage was removed in the late 20th century. A single-storey kitchen/scullery extension exists beyond and to the left of the hall, and is believed to be an addition from the 19th century, completing a three-room plan.

The main range is two storeys high, while the kitchen extension is single-storey. It has a two-window front with 20th-century two-light casements. A slate canopy extends over the hall window to the left, continuing over the hall window itself with a 20th-century two-light casement and two panes per light. A former doorway to the kitchen extension has been filled in and replaced with a casement window. A canopy to the right forms a lean-to roof over a stone rubble porch with a semicircular-headed brick arch. A 19th-century plank inner door leads inside. A buttress is present at the right end of the building; the depth of the plinth at this lower end reflects the steepness of the ground.

Inside, a step-stopped ovolo-moulded fireplace lintel in the hall is carved with the initials "HL 1622". A winder staircase is positioned at the rear of the hall, leading to a V-shaped arrangement of two 17th-century chamfered door surrounds with old plank doors leading to two chambers above the lower end and the lower part of the hall. A further 17th-century chamfered door surround provides access to a third chamber from the middle chamber. The chamber above the lower end features a moulded plasterwork cornice along three walls, with small, floriated plasterwork roundels positioned above each end. A damaged but largely intact plasterwork ceiling also survives over the principal chamber, concealed by a protective false ceiling introduced in the 20th century. A solid partition within the lower end of the hall rises to the apex of the roof, restricting access to the roof structure above. A 17th-century truss, featuring lap-jointed collar, threaded purlins, and a ridge purlin, with the majority of rafters intact, is located above the hall. There's no evidence of smoke-blackening. The farmhouse’s compact size, combined with the extensive survival of original features, makes it a notable and rare example of a single-phase survival. Small, two-room plan houses from the early 17th century are uncommon in Devon.