Perry Farmhouse

Perry Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from the 17th century, likely a remodelling and extension of an earlier building. The exterior is whitewashed rendered stone with a thatched roof, featuring a plain ridge and gabled ends, a left-end stack, and an axial stack.

The plan suggests a four-room and through-passage arrangement, with two unheated service rooms at the right end and two heated rooms at the left. A thick crosswall between the two heated rooms indicates a possible original configuration of two rooms and a through-passage. A two-storey projection is located on the front, off the heated room adjacent to the passage; this projection may have been a stair projection. A winder stair rises at the rear of the left-hand room, and a straight stair at the rear of the heated room adjacent to the passage.

The front elevation is asymmetrical, featuring a 2:1:1 window arrangement (one window to the projection), with two gabled dormers over the left-hand first-floor windows. A wide 19th-century plank front door leads to the passage, situated to the right of centre. A second entrance has a half-glazed thatched porch at the extreme left. Attractive, probably early 19th-century iron-framed casement windows feature iron glazing bars; timber casements are present on the projection and at ground floor on the right. The rear elevation includes a rear door to the through passage, one first-floor iron-frame window with iron glazing bars, and two small ground-floor windows, being otherwise blank to the right of the rear through passage door.

Inside, the right-hand heated room has a stack backing onto the passage, displaying stone monolith jambs, a chamfered stopped timber lintel, and a dismantled bread oven. It also has an axial ceiling beam with step-nick stops. The left-hand room features a fireplace with a chamfered stopped lintel and ashlar jambs; the fireplace has been partly filled in with stone rubble, and a chamfered axial ceiling beam is also present here. Several modern partition walls are located on the first floor. The roof has straight principal rafters, but access was not possible during the survey.

The building has group value alongside an adjacent barn.