Halse Farmhouse

Halse Farmhouse is a farmhouse with origins dating back to the 16th century, with flooring added in the 17th century, a wing from the 18th century, and window alterations made in the 20th century. The building is constructed of cob on a rubble plinth, rendered and colourwashed, with gabled and hipped straw-thatched roofs and stacks featuring brick and rendered shafts. The overall plan is L-shaped, with the main range designed in a three-room and through-passage layout. The kitchen, located at the lower right end, is heated by a gable end stack, while the hall has a lateral stack at the back and the inner room features a gable end stack. It is likely that part of the house was originally open to the roof, as evidenced by the reuse of smoke-blackened timbers in the roof structure of the 18th-century wing added to the front of the higher left end. In the 19th century, the back of the through-passage was blocked off and a staircase was inserted.

The exterior features 1:3 windows with late 20th-century two- and three-light casements that include glazing bars. There are two door openings: one on the right side of the 18th-century wing with a six-panelled door, where the top two panels are glazed, and another door opening to the right leading into the former through-passage, which has a plank door. The right return has a stack, and there is a lateral stack at the rear, each with a projecting rubble breast that is rendered. The rear elevation includes 19th-century casements.

Inside, the hall has a chamfered axial ceiling beam with hollow stepped-stops and a fireplace featuring a chamfered wood bressumer with ogee-stops. The inner room also has a similarly moulded chamfered axial ceiling beam. The roof is a 18th-century collar-beam design with halved and lapped joints, and some early smoke-blackened rafters have been reused over the wing.