Lorna Doone

Lorna Doone is a house that likely dates from the late 15th century, with alterations made in the 17th and 19th centuries. It features colourwashed rendered rubble and some cob, topped with slate roofs that have gable ends. The front of the house has two large rubble lateral stacks, which have been heightened with brick shafts. Originally, it was probably a three-cell open hall house, but the upper end has been partially demolished and converted into an outbuilding with a corrugated iron lean-to roof.

In the 17th century, floors were inserted, and a stair turret was added to the front of the hall. This stair turret was rebuilt at the rear in the 19th century, and a door was inserted there, while the original through-passage door has been infilled. The house has one and a half storeys and a two-window range, featuring a gabled dormer between the stacks and a half dormer to the right, which has a horned sash window with marginal glazing bars. To the right of a 20th-century half-glazed panelled door, which was likely part of the former stair turret, there is a small narrow ogee-headed light in the short returning wall where the upper end slightly recesses.

A two-light window has been inserted in the former through-passage doorway, and there is a door made of three wide planks leading to the lean-to shed at the upper end. Inside, there is a scroll-stopped beam in the hall and a partially boxed-in plank and muntin screen at the through-passage end of the hall, with the original doorframe also cased in. The house features two pairs of raised crucks with slightly cranked collars that are morticed into the soffits of the blades; the one above the hall has been closed off to form a partition to a chamber at the top of the 19th-century staircase, which has turned balusters and newels. The original chimney pieces have been blocked up and replaced with 19th and 20th-century insertions.