The Exeter Inn

The Exeter Inn is a former farmhouse that has been converted into a public house. It dates from the late 16th century to early 17th century and was extended on the right end in the 20th century. The building is constructed of roughcast rendered stone rubble and cob, topped with a hipped thatch roof. There is a rendered lateral rear hall stack with a tapered cap and a rendered stack at the left end. The original layout was probably a three-room and through passage plan, but the interior has been altered in the 20th century, and a two-storey, two-bay extension was added to the right end. At the rear of the original range, there is a thatched outshut that slightly projects at the left end. The building is two storeys high with a four-window range, including the added two bays at the right end. The windows are mainly early 20th-century irregular fenestration, featuring two and three-light casements, and there are two thatched porch roofs. Inside, much of the structure has been altered, but the hall fireplace retains a bread oven and a roughly chamfered timber lintel. The roof structure dates from the 18th to early 19th century and consists of six trusses with straight principals and pegged collars, with no signs of smoke-blackening.