East Essebeer Farmhouse

East Essebeer Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from the 16th century, with an 18th-century addition and refenestration. The building features a rubble and cob core, which is rendered and whitewashed, topped with a thatched roof and brick chimney shafts. The layout consists of a three-unit and through-passage house, with a central hall that has a front lateral stack and an integral hall bay. To the left is an unheated inner room that shows no evidence of a stack. The through-passage has been removed, and the lower end was rebuilt in the 18th century when the staircase was relocated beyond the lower room to a new entrance hall. An additional 18th-century room was built beyond this entrance hall, and there is also an 18th-century lean-to along the rear elevation. The entire building was reroofed in the 18th century.

The exterior is two storeys high with three bays, featuring two and three-light casements with closely set glazing bars. Four of these windows are likely from the 18th century, while two were replaced in the 20th century with conforming style casements. There is a further triple-light sash window on the ground floor to the extreme right, also with glazing bars. A door opening to the right leads into the 18th-century stair-hall, which has a 20th-century glazed door.

Inside, the hall has a narrow fireplace with an unchamfered bressumer, and the axial ceiling beam is without chamfer or stops. The inner room has a ceiling, but the ceiling bead is not visible. The lower room, which was rebuilt, features an axial ceiling beam that is also without chamfer or stop, and a small offset fireplace in the gable wall with an unchamfered wooden bressumer. The 18th-century entrance hall includes a simple dog-leg staircase with a ramped toadsback handrail and stick balusters, topped with a large square newel. On the first floor, there is an 18th-century door with fielded panels. The roof was all replaced with simple collar beam trusses in the 18th century, featuring a mortised ridge and two rows of purlins. Some rafters from an earlier roof have been reused, but no trusses are visible, making it impossible to date the former structure.