Stone Farmhouse

Stone Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse, although it may contain earlier fabric that is not visible. The building was extended in the late 18th century or early 19th century. It features rendered stone and cob construction with slate roofs at two levels, ending in gables. The porch has a hipped roof. The layout consists of three rooms with a through-passage, extended by an additional room at the lower end, which is said to have originally been a lean-to that was later raised to two storeys.

Heating is provided by a brick stack at the right gable end for the inner room, a ridge stack with a brick shaft for the hall that backs onto the through-passage, and another ridge stack, formerly at the gable end, which heats the lower end. The farmhouse has two storeys and a total of seven windows. The 20th-century fenestration includes two- and three-light casements. Inside, the inner room and hall feature chamfered beams, with the hall retaining its original joists. There is a scroll-stopped chamfered beam at the lower end, which includes some 18th-century joinery and a large concealed fireplace with two bread ovens.

The house is notable for showing four changes in cooking activity: an infilled bread oven in the hall, two bread ovens in the partially concealed fireplace at the lower end, a mid-20th-century kitchen fitted in the added bay at the lower end, and a late 20th-century kitchen in an extension to the rear of the inner room. The first-floor rooms have 19th-century ledged plank doors, and there is a wide five-plank ledged door at the inner porch doorway. The roof structure was completely replaced in the late 18th century or early 19th century.