Zeaston

Zeaston is a farmhouse dating from around the late 16th century. It is constructed from plastered stone rubble and cob, with a slate roof featuring gabled and hipped ends. The left-hand (southwest) lower end has a lower roof level. The layout consists of three rooms and a through passage, with a parlour wing at the higher end that includes a stair turret at the angle and a porch leading to the through passage doorway. There is a large axial chimney stack backing onto the through passage and another at the higher (northeast) gable end. A later stack is present at the lower end, which was originally unheated. The building has two storeys and a five-window range on the southeast front, featuring two and three-light casements with leaded panes. The two ground floor windows and the doorway have later cambered brick arches. The through passage doorway is located to the left of centre and has a plank door. The northwest front, now the rear, has a gabled porch leading to the through passage doorway with a later two-centred stone arch. The hall has a hipped roof to the parlour wing on the left, with a stair projection in the angle.

Inside, there is a chamfered fireplace beam in the hall with step stops and stone rubble jambs, similar to those at the gable end wall of the inner room. A 17th-century plank partition with scratch mouldings is located at the inner end of the hall, which also features thin, roughly hewn ceiling beams. Later stairs are found in the rear turret. The roof structure includes principals that are morticed at the apices and a cut far diagonal ridge piece that is missing, along with mortices for threaded purlins, which are also absent. Dovetail lap-joins are used for the collars.