Coombe

Coombe is a house built in 1616 for John Willett, a woolstapler. It is constructed of coursed slatestone rubble and features a late 19th-century gabled slate roof. The building has a stone stack at the right end with a drip course, as well as two stone lateral stacks with drip courses located at the center and left of the front wall. The house has a three-unit plan with an entrance to a former passage on the right side of the central hall. It is one storey and an attic high, with a four-window range.

To the right of the center, there is a two-storey gabled porch that includes a 17th-century label mould over a 20th-century two-light window above a 17th-century chamfered square-headed doorway. This doorway contains a 17th-century studded and panelled door set in a moulded wood architrave with a bar stop. The gabled dormers feature timber lintels over mid-19th-century twelve-pane sashes, and there are 17th-century label moulds, one of which has stops carved with the initials EB, over a late 19th-century French window to the left and a 20th-century three to four-light mullioned and transomed window.

At the rear, there are mid-19th-century sashes and casements with glazing bars, along with two early to mid-19th-century gabled two-storey extensions made of similar materials that have brick stacks and doveholes in the right gable end.

Inside, the room to the right, which was a former service room, has a chamfered bressummer over an open fireplace with a cloam oven. The central room features an open fireplace and a chamfered door frame leading to the room on the left, which was the former parlour and boasts a fine early 17th-century plaster ceiling. This ceiling has a foliate frieze with a moulded cornice and strapwork patterns centered on flowers, with pointed leaves ending in oak-leaf and acorn decoration. The rear left wing contains a late 19th-century dog-leg staircase with reset early 17th-century turned balusters. The feet of A-frame trusses are visible on the first floor, and the central room has a plasterwork escutcheon over the fireplace, featuring strapwork patterns and a vase of flowers at the center, along with S-scrolls with reversed heads, similar to those found on the bench ends of Abbotsham Church. Additionally, there is a fine mid-19th-century cast-iron grate. The roof has not been inspected.