Healand House

Healand House is a house, formerly a farmhouse, dating from the early 18th century, likely a remodelling of an earlier structure. It is built of rendered cob with a slate roof featuring gabled ends. The gable-end stacks are made of stone rubble, with rendered shafts that have been heightened in brick.

The house has a deep plan with a central through-passage, although the rear doorway has been blocked. To the left of the passage is a parlour, and to the right is a kitchen, both equipped with gable-end stacks. There are smaller unheated service rooms at the back, and later outshuts have been added at either end.

The exterior is two storeys high, with a symmetrical three-window southeast front. The windows are 20th-century replacement three-light casements with glazing bars, and there is a central doorway with a plank door and a later gabled porch. The rear features asymmetrical fenestration with small casements and a central blocked doorway.

Inside, the lower right-hand room, which was the former kitchen, has a ceiling and a large stone fireplace with an unchamfered timber lintel, along with a blocked oven and bench against the front and cross-passage walls. The cross-passage has cob or stone walls on either side, with a plank door leading to the kitchen and a fielded four-panel door with a moulded frame leading to the parlour. The parlour has a ceiling and a stone fireplace with a replaced lintel. A straight staircase rises from the former kitchen, featuring a simple stick balustrade and a landing with 18th-century plank doors, one of which has cover-moulds. The chambers have late 19th-century cast-iron chimneypieces. The roof is a six-bay structure with five trusses, where the principals are halved and crossed at the apex, and scissor-braces are halved and pegged to the principals. The cob upper end of the southwest gable appears to be smoke-blacked.

Overall, Healand House is a largely intact early 18th-century vernacular house, likely remodelled from an earlier building.