Larcombe Farmhouse And Adjoining Outbuilding To North East And Garden Wall To East

A farmhouse and adjoining outbuilding, dating from around the early 17th century, with remodelling in around the early 19th century. The building is constructed from local slate rubble with a slate roof, gable ends, and red clay ridge tiles. It has rear lateral and gable end stacks with rendered brick shafts and old turned clay pots. The original house likely had a 3-room and through or cross-passage plan. The left-hand room was originally heated by a gable-end stack, the hall by a lateral stack, and the right-hand room by another gable-end stack. The internal arrangement is believed to have been altered, likely in the early 19th century when the house was remodelled and extended with a small wing at the rear of the left-hand end and a farm building projecting forward to create an L-shaped plan.

The east front is asymmetrical with four windows. Most windows are 20th-century 4-pane sashes, except for an early 19th-century 16-pane sash on the ground floor right and a 20th-century 4-light casement to the left, which has a dressed stone hoodmould, chamfered timber lintel with ogee stops and a chamfered timber lintel. A centrally located doorway has an early 19th-century fielded panel door with reeded bottom panels and a 20th-century glazed porch.

A circa early 19th-century farm building projects from the right-hand end of the front. It is built of dressed slate rubble, but the hipped roof is mostly clad in corrugated asbestos. On the inner face, reused hollow-chamfered stones are visible as a wall-plate. The inner face of the farm building contains a 19th-century plank door, a 19th-century 3-light casement above, and two large blocked doorways to the right. A low boundary wall, built of slate rubble with pitched slate capping, runs along the front garden on the other two sides. A pair of gate piers with slate caps support a 20th-century wrought-iron gate. The rear elevation was not inspected, and the interior remains unknown.