Spurway Farmhouse

Spurway Farmhouse is a house, originally a farmhouse, dating to about 1700, with a rear addition from the early 19th century. The main section is built of whitewashed rendered cob, with an asbestos slate roof that is gabled at the ends. The rear wings have slate roofs, half-hipped at the ends. Brick chimney shafts rise at each end of the main range, the left-hand stack incorporating a large, rounded bread oven.

The main range is a single depth, two rooms wide, with heated rooms on either side of a central passage; the kitchen is to the left and the parlour to the right. The rear left and right wings are each one room wide and form a U-shaped house, likely built as a single entity around 1700. In the early 19th century a rear outshut was added between the rear wings, containing a 19th-century open-well staircase. 20th-century renovations have since been undertaken. 

The front of the house is symmetrical with three bays, featuring a central entrance with a flat-roofed porch supported by square posts. The windows are generally 3-light casements with 3 panes per light, except for the ground floor room on the right which has a 2-light casement with 6 panes. The rear elevation includes a central, round-headed stair window with margin glazing.

Inside, both front ground floor rooms have chamfered cross beams. The left-hand room also features exposed joists and a fireplace with red breccia jambs and a plain lintel. The right-hand room has an open-fronted china cupboard. The rear right room also has a chamfered cross beam and exposed joists. The early 19th-century staircase has a ramped handrail, turned newels, and stick balusters. A second winding staircase is located in a passage to the rear of the original kitchen (left-hand room), leading to the attic. A third staircase, thought to be a servants' stair, connects the rear left wing to the first floor.

The roof construction, which was not fully accessible during a 1985 survey, shows straight principal rafters with straight collars pegged onto them. The roof structure over the rear left wing is similar. The house represents an unusual example in the region of a single build dating to circa 1700.