Middle Beccott Including Attached Lofted Stable, And Shippon Range Extending To West

Middle Beccott is a farmhouse that likely dates back to the early 18th century, with extensions and alterations made in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The building is constructed of rendered stone rubble, with the rear left unrendered. It features a slate roof, although the rear has an asbestos slate roof. The gable ends have rendered stacks, with the left stack made of stone rubble and having a drip and tapered cap, while the right stack is brick. There is also an additional stone rubble stack with a tapered cap located on the rear service wing. The stable and shippon range has a hipped asbestos slate roof.

The original layout of the farmhouse has been obscured by later changes. The main range has a principal room on each side of a cross-passage that contains an integral rear staircase. A massive stone rubble wall rises to the roof apex between the upper side of the cross-passage and the right-hand room, indicating that this right end, which has an integral rear outshut, was likely added as a parlour in the late 18th or early 19th century. Behind the left-hand room, extending to the left, is the service range, which includes a kitchen, former dairy, and salting house. This continues as the long lofted stable and shippon range.

The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a three-window range with 19th and 20th-century fenestration, featuring 2-light casements with six panes per light. The ground floor has two 3-light casements flanking a plank door. The rear of the left gable end slightly splays inward to allow more light into the projecting rear service wing, which has two 2-light casements with three panes per light on each floor. The stable and shippon range has two loft doors above six doorways, with the second and fourth openings from the left end infilled and windows inserted.

Inside, the left-hand principal room has a thin chamfered cross ceiling beam with straight cut stops and three 2-panelled doors with original hinges leading to the chambers at the head of the stairs. The roof structure of the original range remains intact, featuring two pegged trusses with straight principals and slightly trenched purlins, although the roof timbers over the service wing have been replaced. There are no signs of smoke-blackening in the building.