Old Parsonage Farmhouse

Old Parsonage Farmhouse is an early 17th-century former rectory, later converted to a farmhouse and now divided into two occupations. The front range was extensively remodelled in the mid to late 18th century, again in the mid-19th century when it was converted to a farmhouse, and with a late 19th-century extension added to the right end. The building is constructed of painted rendered stone rubble and cob, with a slate roof featuring crested ridge tiles and gable ends.

The farmhouse has a principal room on each side of the entrance stairhall, with a two-storey service wing positioned behind the right-hand room and an integral two-storey outshut behind the left-hand room, abutting the rear service wing. A two-storey late 19th-century service extension is situated at the right end of the main range, and a rendered lateral stack is on the outer face of the rear wing. The 18th-century remodelling has largely obscured the original 17th-century layout, but it likely conformed to a three-room L-shaped plan. The interior was largely remodelled in the late 18th century, and the roof was substantially raised at that time.

The front of the farmhouse has a four-window arrangement. It features original 18th-century windows, all largely intact, including three 12-paned hornless sash windows and a semi-circular arched sash window with intersecting glazing bars above a shallow porch. The porch has a pediment with fluted pilasters, a pulvinated frieze, and a six-panelled door with the upper two panels glazed. A West of England fire insurance plaque is set into the pediment. A tripartite sash window to the left has 16 panes, with 8-paned sliding sidelight sashes, and a 12-paned sash is located to the right. All windows have flush sash boxes. The rear service wing has a canted 19th-century oriel window with a 16-paned sash flanked by 8-paned sashes, with additional 8-paned sashes to the sides. Below is a timber mullion window of two lights, with 15 panes to the left and 6 panes to the right.

The interior remains largely unspoilt, retaining a mostly 18th-century character with some 17th-century fabric. A plank and muntin screen is located to the right of the passage, raised on a stone rubble plinth with chamfered muntins with diagonal stops near the base. A raised and fielded five-panelled door leads into the right-hand principal room, which features panelled shutters and doors to integral cupboards, as well as a section of reset 17th-century panelling with lozenge decoration on the passage side. A 17th-century plank door with cover strips leads to the rear service range. An 18th-century winder staircase is located to the rear of the passage, having slender turned balusters and a moulded handrail. Principal bedrooms retain raised and fielded two-panelled doors. The left-hand principal room was not inspected, but it is believed to retain a moulded plaster cornice.

The roof was raised in the 18th century and some trusses were replaced in the 19th century. However, one original truss, probably dating from the 17th century, survives enclosed within the partition wall to the lower side of the passage. This truss had threaded purlins and retains a mud and stud infilling, showing no sign of smoke-blackening. The apex of the truss aligns with that of the truss to the rear service range, suggesting a significantly lower former roof line for the main range.