Studdys Farmhouse

The building is a farmhouse, dating from the early to mid 17th century, with substantial restoration work carried out in the late 20th century. It is constructed of painted slate rubble, with a dry slate roof featuring gabled ends and an asymmetrical gable end to the front porch. The roof has black glazed ridge tiles. The chimney stacks are rendered, projecting gable and stack at the lower left-hand end, a rear lateral hall stack with set-offs and a tapered shaft, and a projecting rear lateral stack.

The original layout was a 3-room and through-passage plan, with the lower end, to the left (southwest), heated by a gable end stack. The hall has a rear lateral stack, and the inner room to the right has a loft above, accessed by an external stair on the gable end. A large 2-storey porch with an integral stair turret is situated at the front of the passage. A shallow, 2-storey, unheated wing was added in the late 20th century to the rear of the lower end. In the late 19th century, the through passage was widened by moving the lower side partition to create a larger entrance hall containing a late 19th-century staircase. Subsequent 20th-century alterations included rebuilding an outshut behind the hall stack and extending the first-floor accommodation into the loft at the upper right-hand end.

The front elevation has an asymmetrical 4-window range, featuring various small window openings with slate cills and larger ground floor windows with new wooden lintels. All windows are 20th-century 3-light casements. The 2-storey porch has an asymmetrical gable with a cambered brick arch doorway and a 20th-century 2-light casement above. The porch gable has slate weathering. The corner at the upper right-hand end is rounded. External stone steps lead to the loft doorway in the upper right-hand gable end.

The rear elevation features a shallow wing added with a gable and a late 20th-century outshut enclosing the hall's lateral stack. The fenestration is asymmetrical, with late 20th-century casements.

Internally, the hall has a chamfered cross-beam with hollow step and bar stops. The hall fireplace has a replaced lintel. A stone newel stair is located in the integral turret beside the porch. The through passage was widened to create an entrance hall, housing the late 19th-century staircase. The lintel of the lower end fireplace has been replaced. The wall between the lower end room and the rear wing has been removed. The roof structure has been entirely replaced in the late 20th century, except for the roof over the loft above the inner room, which is likely of late 19th-century origin.