Champson Farm Cottage Middle Champson

Champson Farm Cottage is an early 17th-century farmhouse, with a probable early to mid-18th century cottage adjoining it. The buildings are situated south of Middle Champson, on Molland South Down Lane. The thatched roof was removed in 1961, and later 20th-century alterations have also occurred. The farmhouse is rendered over stone rubble and cob, with a corrugated asbestos gable roof, while the cottage is rendered with a corrugated asbestos roof. A catslide extends over the rear outshut. Rendered stacks are present.

The original farmhouse follows a two-room baffle-entry plan, facing south. A central axial stack serves the left-hand room, with an altered dog-leg staircase situated behind, partly incorporated into a later rear outshut. The right-hand room has an integral end stack. Adjoining the farmhouse to the left is a two-room cottage with an integral end stack. A continuous outshut runs along the rear of both buildings, likely a later addition, with the section behind the cottage containing a reduced-size dairy. The eaves of the cottage were raised sometime in the 19th century. A carved door surround, featuring small carved figures, formerly graced the front doorway of the farmhouse; it was removed around 1983, though its current location is unknown. An inscription dated 1635 was reportedly visible on the building.

The farmhouse and cottage present an asymmetrical two-window facade. The cottage has 2-light windows to the first floor and 3-light windows on the ground floor, all replacements with wooden frames. The farmhouse has two- and three-light early 20th-century wooden casements. A boarded door serves as the central entrance to the cottage, while the farmhouse entrance is located centrally.

The interior of the farmhouse reveals a door dating from around 1700, with two raised and fielded panels, between the entrance lobby and the right-hand ground-floor room. The left-hand ground-floor room features a blocked open fireplace with a chamfered wooden lintel, a cupboard with 19th-century two-panelled doors and 18th-century H-hinges, and a window seat. The right-hand ground-floor room has an old cupboard to the left of the fireplace, featuring 18th-century butterfly hinges. A 19th-century dog-leg staircase is present, with evidence of an earlier staircase. The dairy in the outshut retains low slate shelves. First-floor rooms have original floorboards, with one right-hand bedroom having a 17th-century cupboard to the right of the fireplace, featuring a scratch-moulded door and H-hinges, alongside a cupboard in the rear wall with H-L hinges. The roof contains 17th-century trusses, now covered by a late 20th-century roof structure.