Middle Knightacott Farmhouse And Front Garden Wall To South East

This is a probably early 17th-century farmhouse with a later 17th or early 18th-century addition to the rear. It is constructed of colourwashed rubble and cob, with a slate roof to the rear and asbestos slate to the front. The gable ends are to the left and to the rear projection, which is hipped to the right end of the main range. Rubble stacks are present at each end of the main range, and a further rubble stack is located to the rear gable end, all with drip mouldings. Originally a three-cell through-passage plan with a stair turret to the rear of the hall, the through-passage and the dividing wall of the lower end have been removed. The farmhouse is two storeys high, with a three-window front of sash windows, featuring 3 over 6 panes. The central sash has horns and a 20th-century window is to the left of the gabled porch, which has a plank door. Two two-light windows are to the right, the one next to the porch has four panes per light and a slate dripmould. These flank six bee-boles that are set into the wall, arranged as a double stack of three, with slate sills. The rear projection to the right end forms an L-shape. On the inner face of the rear projection is an 18th-century 21-paned fixed light. A plank door is to the left, under a slated canopy, with a sash window above, featuring 4 over 4 panes and four-paned sidelights.

Inside, chamfered and stopped spine beams are visible in three principal rooms. Three fluted balusters remain of the balustrade at the head of the stairs. Two 17th-century door surrounds survive in the chambers over the upper end; one has a cranked chamfered head and the original door of two large planks, the other has an old three-plank door. An 18th-century two-panelled door leads to the chamber at the head of the stairs. Four roof trusses are found over the main range; one formerly had threaded purlins and a diagonally threaded ridge purlin, another has trenched purlins and raking struts morticed into the soffits of the principals, and the other two are later replacements. Three late 17th or early 18th-century roof trusses are present in the rear addition with side-pegged collars.

There is an enclosed courtyard to the rear, with a small outbuilding that has a corrugated iron roof, a plank door and a wider opening with an inserted brick pier. The front garden wall, capped with slate and clay ridge tiles, has buttresses every five metres and extends south-eastwards from the right side of the farmhouse. The farm buildings enclose the garden to the left.