Victoria Farmhouse

Victoria Farmhouse is an 18th-century former farmhouse, with later 20th-century renovations and a rear extension. The walls are whitewashed cob on stone rubble, with a deep thatched roof, half-hipped at the ends. The end stacks are rendered, and a corner stack has been removed. Originally, the house had a double-depth plan with two rooms wide and a central passage, the main rooms facing the front, a narrow kitchen to the rear left, and a dairy to the rear right. Partitions between the service and principal rooms have been removed. The staircase rises from the cross passage. A two-story flat-roofed extension has been added to the rear. The front is symmetrical with three bays, featuring a 20th-century thatched porch on posts and a 20th-century timber front door. The windows are 20th-century timber casements with glazing bars, with the ground floor windows slightly bowed. There are two casements in the left return. Inside, there are late 18th-century cupboards in the front rooms, some exposed joists on the rear ground floor, an 18th- or early 19th-century stick baluster staircase, and six-panel doors on the first floor. The roof structure comprises pegged A-frames of an 18th-century character, with halved collars and principals halved at the apex. The farmhouse occupies an important corner location in the center of the village and has group value with the adjoining barn and other buildings in the village center.