9, Crossley Moor Road

A former farmhouse, now converted to a house and restaurant, located in Kingsteignton. The building has possibly early 16th-century origins with 17th-century remodelling. It was extended in the 19th century and renovated in the 20th century.

The walls are whitewashed rendered cob with a thatched roof that is hipped at the ends and half-hipped at the end of the rear wing. Chimneys include an axial stack, a front lateral stack, and a stack at the junction with the rear wing.

The building is two storeys with an overall L-shaped plan, comprising a principal range fronting the roadside and a rear wing, which may formerly have been an outbuilding converted into house accommodation. The interior of the main range has been altered but retains evidence of a two-room and through passage plan, with a 19th-century addition at its northern end.

The principal east elevation displays an asymmetrical five-window arrangement with regular fenestration of three-light 20th-century casements with square leaded panes. Two windows at the extreme left wrap around the south return of the building. A blocked doorway to the former passage lies to the left of the front lateral stack. The 19th-century addition at the right hand end projects forwards slightly. The rear elevation features curved thatch eaves at the junction between the rear wing and main range.

Internally, although the passage partitions have been removed, exposed joists survive. The fireplace to the lateral stack has been blocked but early features may survive behind the plaster. Most cross beams have been replaced, though one original chamfered beam with diagonal stops survives at the left end. The shared fireplace between the right end and central rooms appears to have been wholly rebuilt. The stair rises from a doorway on the rear wall of the left hand room, providing access to both the wing and the first floor of the main range. The first floor features early 18th-century two-panel doors into the rooms from a rear corridor. The central first floor room contains an early 18th-century bolection moulded chimney piece and a blocked fireplace. One side-pegged jointed cruck is visible upstairs with original rafters and purlins. The humped shape of the ridge suggests medieval origins, and the surviving early roof timbers are of interest.

The building was at one time divided into three cottages. Cattle were led through the passage from the front of the house to the farm building at the rear within living memory. Documents dating to the 15th century are said to have been discovered in the house and are now held in the museum at Newton Abbot.