Seccombe Farmhouse

Seccombe Farmhouse is a circa early 17th-century farmhouse that was remodelled around the mid-19th century. It is constructed of local slate rubble, with rendering on the north elevation, and has a slate roof with gabled ends and red clay ridge tiles. Rendered gable end stacks are positioned at the left and end, and rear of the building.

The original plan was L-shaped, initially facing north with a two-room main range. The western room, likely a hall/kitchen, was heated by a large gable-end fireplace. The eastern room may have originally been unheated, separated from the western room by a passage, with a two-story porch at the front. A parlour wing, featuring a gable-end stack and staircase, was added to the west of the main range. In the mid-19th century, the house was reoriented, with the south elevation becoming the front, and the passage within the main range widened to create a stairhall. A single-story extension was added in the 20th century, filling the space between the north wing and porch.

The south front is asymmetrical with three windows and 20th-century plastic windows. A mid-19th-century flush panel door, with glazed upper panels and a later 19th or 20th-century slated canopy, is positioned to the left of the centre. The original north front retains a gabled, two-story porch on the left, featuring a later 19th-century 2-light casement window with a slate sill. The porch's inner doorway has a similar ovolo-moulded lintel to that over the first floor window, while the outer doorway has a segmental arched timber lintel. The rendered rear wing has a projecting gable end stack and 20th-century plastic windows. A 20th-century flat-roof extension obscures a doorway that likely originally served as the parlour window.

Internally, most of the joinery dates to the 19th century. The former kitchen (western room) has an open fireplace with a chamfered slate-on-edge lintel, splayed dressed stone jambs, and a half-beam with an ovolo moulding above the fireplace. Two cross-beams have chamfers with run-out stops. The east room has no visible early features. A mid to later 19th-century staircase is located in the stairhall. The rear wing (now a kitchen) was formerly the parlour and includes a short section of circa 17th-century moulded plaster frieze featuring a row of Pegasus figures. A moulded plaster ceiling is said to have previously existed in this room. The staircase between the kitchen and parlour is 19th century, although likely in its original position. The roof over the main range retains principal rafters with missing threaded purlins and mortices for cellars, with one principal featuring a curved foot. Later lapped and pegged collars are present in the roof trusses over the right end, and the roof structure for the rear wing has apparently been replaced.