Atkins House

Atkins House is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, dating from the early 17th century, possibly with earlier origins, and has later additions from the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The building features plastered cob walls and a gable-ended thatch roof. It has a brick axial stack and another stack at the right gable end, along with a plastered rubble projecting stack with a brick shaft at the left gable end and a similar front lateral stack.

The original plan of the house is not entirely clear, but it is likely to have been a three-room-and-through-passage layout. The lower room to the right is heated by the front lateral stack, the hall has a stack at its higher end, and the inner room is heated by the gable-end stack. A one-room addition was made at the right-hand end in the later 20th century, which is heated by a gable-end stack. A 18th-century outshut was added at the front, and a later 19th-century outshut was built at the front of the left-hand end, along with a 20th-century addition. The house is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical two-window front, featuring a three-light 19th-century casement to the left of centre on each floor and a later 19th-century four-pane sash to the right on the first floor. There is a passage doorway with a 19th-century six-panel door to the right of centre, which is behind a wooden lattice porch. A slate roof leanto is present in front of the left-hand end, and a leanto to the right has thatch extended in a catslide over it. There is also a 20th-century small flat-roofed wing immediately to its left. The rear elevation has several early 19th-century sashes and a gable over the first-floor windows with 19th-century barge-boards.

Inside, the chamfered cross beams are mostly plastered over. The right-hand room features a partially open fireplace with a chamfered wooden lintel. Several early 18th-century fielded two-panel doors are preserved, along with a notable 18th-century wall cupboard that has a round-arched head, a dropped keystone, and fluted pilasters. Although there is no access to the roof space, the feet of substantial straight principals visible on the first floor suggest a date of at least the 17th century.