Shute Farmhouse

Shute Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid 17th century, possibly with earlier origins, and includes a 19th-century addition. The building features slatestone rubble walls and a slate roof that is gabled at the right end and hipped at the left. It has a projecting rubble front lateral stack, a brick stack at the left-hand end, and a brick axial stack serving the rear wing. The layout consists of a two-room-and-through-passage plan, with a possible integral wing behind the right-hand room. The lower room on the left may have originally been unheated and served as a service room, while the larger hall on the right is heated by a fireplace on its front wall. The wing behind this room likely functioned as the kitchen and includes a newel stair on the outside wall near its junction with the hall. A two-storey lean-to was added behind the left-hand end of the house in the late 19th or early 20th century.

The exterior is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical three-window front featuring late 20th-century PVC casements on the first floor and to the left below. There is a narrow small-paned light at the centre on the ground floor and a 20th-century three-light casement to its right, beyond the lateral stack. A part-glazed door is located to the left of centre. The wing at the right-hand end has a shallow projection for the newel stairs on the outside wall, and there is a tall two-storey outshut along the rear of the house.

Inside, the hall has chamfered cross beams, one of which features bar stops. The ceiling drops in level towards the lower end of the hall, above which is a first-floor partition, suggesting the presence of an internal jetty, though this could not be verified without access to the roof space. At the higher end of the hall, there is a section of 17th-century panelling with moulded panels and a decorative carved frieze. Some roof trusses have slightly curved feet, indicating they may be 17th century or earlier, but evidence of smoke blackening could not be assessed due to lack of access to the loft.