Oak Farmhouse

Oak Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates from the early 16th century, with remodels occurring in the late 16th or early 17th century. The lower end of the house was extended and the interior was partially remodeled in the late 18th century. The building is constructed of painted rendered stone rubble and cob, topped with a slate roof featuring gable end brick stacks and a capped front lateral hall stack.

The layout consists of a three-room-and-cross-passage plan, with the lower end situated to the right. The wide passage contains a staircase and a second staircase leading to the rear of the lower room. The parlour is located to the right of the passage at the lower end, while the kitchen is to the left, with the inner room at the end. Originally, the hall and inner room were open to the roof, but floors and stacks were added, likely in the late 16th or early 17th century. The lower end has been largely rebuilt and extended in the 18th century. There is a continuous single-storey outshut at the rear.

The exterior features two storeys and a five-window range. The windows include 19th and 20th-century fenestration, with two three-light casements on each floor at the left end, and two-light casements with two panes per light elsewhere, except for a three-light casement at the ground floor right end. The entrance boasts a raised and fielded six-panel door with a shallow bracketed timber canopy.

Inside, the inner room has a cross beam made up of two half beams and a bread oven in the fireplace. The hall features a chamfered cross beam with hollow step stops and a chamfered fireplace lintel that has been damaged by fire. There are three integral cupboards with panelled doors at the lower end of the hall, along with some notable 18th-century raised and fielded dado panelling and panelled shutters in the hall and cross-passage. The cross-passage has a chamfered axial ceiling beam. The lower end parlour has an unchamfered ceiling beam that is keyed to support plaster. Most of the 18th and 19th-century panelled doors remain intact, with few subsequent alterations.

The roof consists of a single jointed cruck truss over the hall, featuring a morticed and tenoned cambered collar, a diagonally set ridge, and trenched purlins. Most of the rafters in the hall and some in the inner room are heavily smoke-blackened. The roof over the lower end and inner room was replaced in the 18th and 20th centuries.