5 And 7, Church Street

Nos 5 and 7 on Church Street are two dwellings that were originally a farmhouse, dating from the 17th century with remodelling from the late 18th to early 19th century on the street-facing gable end. The building is constructed of rubble and cob, with a stuccoed front and roughcast rendering on the sides, topped with a slate roof. It has a three-cell plan built gable end to the street, with a low right-angled two-storey extension forming an L-shaped layout.

At the rear left side, there is an early brick stack set diagonally, featuring a single cone pot, and a 19th-century brick stack on the front extension with two cone pots. To the right side, there is a large rubble lateral stack. The gable end facing the street has a single sash window with two panes over two panes in the upper storey, and a similar sash in the low extension to the right, which is positioned above a pair of horizontal sliding sashes, each with six panes per light, flanking a low half-glazed door set in a deep reveal. An added plank canopy helps to keep rain out of the sunk threshold. All window openings have stone sills and deep reveals. The south side features 20th-century three- and two-light casements. Inside, there are stop-chamfered beams in the middle room, but the interior has been much altered. This farmhouse exemplifies a centrally placed former village farmstead in relation to Braunton's historic cellular town plan and the surviving Great Field.