South Wilborough Farmhouse

South Wilborough Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, likely with earlier origins, and incorporating 18th and 19th century additions. It is constructed of rendered rubble and cob walls with a hipped thatched roof. There are three rendered rubble stacks: one at the right gable end with a brick shaft, a large lateral stack to the front at the centre, and one at the rear of the left-hand end, also with a brick shaft. A gabled chimney stack projection is visible at the rear of a rear wing. The original layout comprised three rooms and a through-passage, with the lower end likely to the left. The lower room was heated by a rear lateral stack, the hall by a front lateral stack, and the inner room by the gable end stack. A dairy wing was probably added in the 18th century to the rear of the inner room, and a 19th-century outshut was built behind the hall.

The farmhouse is two storeys high with an attic over the right-hand end, where the ground level drops. The front facade is asymmetrical, with a four-window arrangement. On the ground and first floors to the left are three-light casement windows from the late 19th or early 20th century, featuring glazing bars. A 19th-century panelled and part-glazed door is positioned to their right, sheltered by a shallow slate doorhood that also covers a small 19th-century single-light window with small panes and iron stanchion bars. The lateral stack projects to the right of this door. To the right of the centre are late 20th-century two-light casements without glazing bars. A 20th-century plank door, situated to the right, is sheltered by a corrugated iron roof that projects forward forming a porch and also extending over a small pump house. A late 17th or early 18th century three-light wood mullion window with square section mullions, having beaded edges, is located at the right-hand gable end on the second floor. At the rear, the dairy wing projects to the left, with a 19th-century outshut to its right and a gabled chimney stack projection beyond.

The interior of the inner room features a roughly chamfered axial beam. The hall has a chamfered cross-beam without discernible stops. A built-in bench runs along the inner end partition of the hall, with an 18th-century wall cupboard above it, featuring an arched fielded-panelled door. The original fireplaces in each main room have been blocked. The dairy retains its slate slab floor. The roof trusses, which were not inspected, consist of rough straight principals with lapped and pegged collars, likely dating from the 18th or 19th century.

The property is accompanied by a limestone rubble garden wall projecting from the front, with two square rubble gate piers. A cobbled area sits immediately in front of the house. At the rear, behind the left-hand gable end, a rubble gate pier with a ball finial provides access to the farmyard. Despite later alterations and the presence of modern windows, the farmhouse retains a relatively traditional exterior and forms a remarkably unaltered group with its farm buildings.