South Hole Farmhouse And Attached Outbuilding

The property is a farmhouse with an attached outbuilding, originally a cider house. It dates to the 15th and 16th centuries, with alterations in the 17th and 19th centuries. The farmhouse is constructed of colourwashed rendered rubble and cob, with some unrendered areas. The extension to the left has a slate roof with gable ends. Some original scantle slates remain on part of the cross-wing. The building was originally an open-hall range with a cross-wing, with the hall later floored and the roof raised. The hall range has a lateral stack to the rear and a small brick stack at the upper gable end.

The main façade has a 4-window range of 19th or early 20th century centre-hinged 2-light casements, with 4 panes to each, and a tripartite sash window with margin glazing bars and sliding sidelight sashes in the hall. A 20th century door has been inserted at the upper end. An arched timber lintel covers the cross-passage, which has a 20th century door. The cross-wing's front gable end has a 2-light over a 3-light casement, with 4 panes to each light, flanked by short buttresses. A lateral stack is located on the left side, which is otherwise blind. A 2-storeyed dairy extension projects to the left at right angles, featuring a 19th century 2-light casement with 3 panes to each light, and a 2-light dairy window. The rear of the cross-wing, overlooking a courtyard, has a plank door and a truncated lateral stack at the upper end that extends into the cider house. The cider house has a corrugated asbestos roof with renewed roof trusses and a large opening on the courtyard side, with a cobbled floor and a loft above.

Early features of the original house are mainly found within the cross-wing, which is two rooms deep, with chamfered beams and a central dividing passage containing a staircase. A plank and muntin screen is situated on the lower side of the dividing passage, with two doorways situated away from the hall range, that have shouldered jambs. Four raised cruck trusses are present in the cross-wing, but roof access is not available at this end. The chamber to the left of the staircase formerly contained 17th century plasterwork, with only a fragment of cornice surviving on three faces near the feet of the inner left-side cruck blade. At the head of the staircase, where the hall range meets the cross-wing, a cruck blade survives, likely from a raised cruck, and is plastered into the dividing wall, representing a remnant of the original open hall roof structure.