Little Deptford Farmhouse

Little Deptford Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from the late 17th century or possibly the early 18th century, although a plasterwork overmantel dated 1711 has been removed. The building was remodeled in the late 19th century and has had some 20th-century alterations. It is constructed from rendered stone rubble and cob, topped with an asbestos slate roof featuring shaped corbels at the gable ends. There are rebuilt stone rubble stacks at each end and a tall stone rubble rear lateral hall stack with a tapered cap and offsets.

The layout is based on a modified three-room-and-cross-passage design. The wide passage is divided axially to create a dairy at the rear, with a kitchen to the left that contains a staircase running up the right-hand wall. To the right are the hall and an inner room, with a staircase at the rear of the inner room that enters the hall at the rear right-hand corner. There are solid cob partitions at each end of the hall. A blocked doorway that once provided direct entry to the hall suggests that the farmhouse may have been divided into two separate occupations at one time.

There are no exposed 17th or 18th-century features, indicating a complete remodeling in the late 19th century when the eaves were heightened and the roof structure was replaced. The farmhouse has two storeys and a four-window range, featuring two-light casements with six panes per light above two 20th-century three-light windows flanking a 20th-century porch and French windows leading to the inner room at the right end, which is enclosed by a lean-to 20th-century porch.

Inside, original fireplaces likely still exist but are concealed behind 20th-century ones. The hall ceiling was replaced in the 20th century, and the molded plaster roundel dated 1711 over the inner room fireplace was also removed in the 20th century.