Combe Farmhouse

Combe Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates back to the early 16th century, with remodels in the 17th century and an extension added in the early 19th century. The building is constructed from rendered stone and cob, topped with a thatch roof that has a half-hipped end on the right and a gable end on the left. The rear wing features a gable-ended slate roof.

The farmhouse has a lateral front hall stack with offsets, a moulded and tapered cap, and a brick shaft, as well as a brick stack at the left end. Originally designed as an open hall house, the lower end and through-passage have likely been demolished, while the parlour end was either rebuilt or added in the 17th century. In the 19th century, a two-storey rear wing was added by extending what may have once been a projecting stair turret at the back of the hall, accompanied by a dairy lean-to in the angle and a lean-to added to the front right end.

The building has two storeys and a two-window range. The 20th-century windows are two-light casements, with six panes per light on the left and four panes per light on the right. The ground floor features a two-light casement with two panes per light to the left of a plank door, and a corrugated asbestos roof covers the lean-to at the right end.

Inside, there are two roughly chamfered ceiling beams in the hall. A 17th-century chamfered door surround with scroll-stopped durns leads to a doorway, which may have originally provided access to the stair turret at the back of the hall, but now opens into the rear extension. A 19th-century staircase has been introduced into the rear right corner of the hall. The roof structure over the parlour and rear wing is not accessible, but above the hall, there are two 17th-century trusses with straight principals, lap-jointed collars, and trenched purlins. Some of the lower purlins and the ridge purlin are reused smoke-blackened timbers, indicating that the hall was originally open to the roof.