West Sherford Farm House Including Outbuilding Adjoining On North East

West Sherford Farm House, including the adjoining outbuilding to the northeast, dates from around the 16th century, with alterations and additions from the 17th century. The structure is built of stone rubble and features a steeply pitched slate roof with gabled, half-hipped, and hipped ends. It has two storeys and a long six-window range. The western part of the house appears to have been raised in the 17th century and extended at the front by two bays, which have hipped roofs and four-light hollow-chamfered stone mullion windows with hood moulds. The ground floor windows feature four-centred arch lights. Centrally located on the right side is a cross-passage doorway with a four-centred arch and roll moulding, accompanied by a large rendered chimney stack with set-offs. Above the doorway is a two-light granite window. The lower right-hand (eastern) end has a range of casement windows, a stack on the rear wall, and an outbuilding at right angles to the northeast, which includes external stairs to a loft and pigeon holes. At the western end, there is a two-storey, one-bay addition from the late 19th century, and at the rear (north) is a wing from the late 18th or 19th century. Inside, the main fireplace in the hall is blocked. The room to the east of the cross-passage features stopped chamfered ceiling beams and a fireplace with a chamfered wooden bressumer. The fireplace in the 17th-century extension at the front has a plain chamfered granite chimneypiece. West Sherford was granted to Francis Drake after 1582 following his circumnavigation. The former provisional lists note that the main block has a high-pitched roof, which retains some arched principals, suggesting that the principal room may have originally been on the first floor.