Figtree

Figtree is a farmhouse, now a house, originally from the 17th century and later modified in the 19th century. The building is constructed of rendered rubble and features a thatched roof with gable ends. It has a stack at the left gable end and two lateral stacks at the rear, with the right stack enclosed in a thatched outshut. The layout includes a 3-cell through-passage plan, with a stair turret in the rear thatched outshut to the right and a former dairy in a two-storey addition to the left, which has a roof that is part corrugated and part pantiled.

There is a single-storey extension at the left gable end, which has a slate roof and was previously outbuildings, now part of the dwelling. The main range is two storeys high and features a four-window range of 2-light casements, each with four panes and margin glazing bars. The entrance is an off-centre 18th or 19th-century panelled door, with the upper two panels glazed and topped by a shallow canopy supported by shaped brackets. To the right, there are two tall 2-light windows with four panes and marginal glazing bars, and to the left, a 20th-century 3-light mullion and transom window with square-leaded panes.

The single-storey extension to the left has plank doors at each end, with the right door being half-glazed, and two 3-light casements in between. The right gable end wall features four pigeon holes. At the rear, there are two 17th-century chamfered mullion windows, both with three lights and reset lintels in the thatched outshut. The hall and heated inner room have ovolo-moulded lintels above the fireplaces, which feature scroll stops. There is a chamfered beam with scroll stops in the hall. The rear through-passage door is half-glazed with margin glazing bars. The kitchen includes a cloam oven with a warming hob to the left, which has been converted into a cupboard. There is a niche for a creamery on the rear wall. A blocked doorway immediately to the left of the through passage and a lath and plaster partition in the roof space suggest that the building may have been converted into two cottages at some point. The roof structure includes five roughly hewn trusses with rafters pegged to two tiers of purlins. Additionally, there is a plasterwork cornice, possibly from the early 18th century, on three walls of the chamber above the parlour.