South Harepath Farmhouse And Garden Wall Adjoining To East

Farmhouse, now divided, with adjoining garden wall. Probably mid to late 17th century, enlarged in the mid 18th century and remodelled and further enlarged in the early 20th century.

The main structure is rendered over cob and stone rubble. The right-hand end has a gable-ended roof in 20th-century asbestos slate (formerly thatched), whilst the left-hand end has a gable-ended Welsh slate roof. The left-hand gable end is parapeted with slate coping. Red brick axial and end stacks serve the building.

The house develops in several phases. The original 17th-century core was a two-room plan with central entrance passage and integral end stacks, facing south-east. A parallel range was added to the rear in the mid 18th century, comprising a kitchen to the left with integral end stack, a scullery or dairy to the right, and a staircase at the centre. A dairy was formed at the rear of the right-hand room, probably also in the 18th century. The house was remodelled externally in the early 19th century. A one-roomed extension was added to the left in the early 19th century (though probably later than the remodelling of the right-hand part), with an external end stack. A two-storey outshut was added at the rear in the 20th century. When thatch was removed in the late 20th century, the eaves of the 17th-century part were raised to the height of the early 19th-century addition. The 20th century saw probable internal alterations, including removal of the partition between the central entrance passage and the right-hand room.

The building is two storeys. The front presents a nearly symmetrical three-bay elevation to the right-hand part, with early 19th-century glazing bar sashes with exposed boxes and stone cills—12-pane windows (4 x 2 panes to lower leafs and 4 x 1 panes to upper leafs) to the first floor and 16-pane (4 x 2 panes to each leaf) to the ground floor. A central doorway has a beaded frame and 20th-century half-glazed door. The early 19th-century addition to the left has flanking pilaster strips and a two-bay front with early 19th-century glazing bar sashes with exposed boxes and wooden cills—16-pane to the left and 12-pane (3 x 2 panes to each leaf) to the right. An early 19th-century six-panelled door to the right has lower panels that are beaded flush and upper panels that are moulded and recessed, with a rectangular overlight. A probable 18th-century two-light leaded wooden casement in the right-hand gable end lights the former dairy. The rear of the 17th-century part has a 18th-century kitchen range with two first-floor two-light casements; the right-hand one is 18th century with a leaded metal opening to the right-hand light, whilst the left-hand one is a 19th-century wooden replacement. The ground floor has a 19th-century two-light wooden casement to the left with wrought-iron bars and internal wooden shutters (lighting the former pantry) and an early 19th-century ground-floor lean-to square bay to the right with an early 19th-century tripartite glazing bar sash (lighting the kitchen). The rear of the early 19th-century addition has a tall round-arched small-paned window lighting the staircase with radial head.

The left-hand ground-floor room of the 17th-century part contains a 17th-century chamfered cross beam with convex runout stops, a moulded picture rail, and a six-panelled door at the rear (probably early 19th century). The right-hand ground-floor room has an early 19th-century depressed-arched square recess with moulded architraves flanking a fireplace in the right-hand end wall, and front windows with panelled internal shutters. The dairy at the rear of the right-hand room retains slate shelves and a blocked rear window. An old cream hob survives in the wall of the kitchen. The early 19th-century addition contains an early 19th-century staircase with stick balusters. The roof over the 17th-century range is said to retain 17th-century trusses.

The adjoining garden wall is probably early 19th century, constructed of uncoursed stone rubble with cement coping. It forms an L-plan, enclosing the right-hand side of the front garden. A Tudor-arched gateway in the side wall consists of a stone arch with dressed voussoirs and a boarded door.