West Iddlecott

West Iddlecott is a house, possibly with late medieval origins, although a more precise date cannot be determined prior to the late 16th century, with additions from the 17th century. The building is constructed of rendered rubble and cob walls, with a gable-ended thatched roof. It features two brick stacks: one axial and the other at the right gable-end, built upon a projecting base of rendered rubble. Originally designed with a three-room-and-through-passage plan, the lower end on the left has been demolished and rebuilt as an outbuilding. The hall stack backs onto the passage. A large inner room is heated by a gable-end stack, which may have been extended in the early 17th century, coinciding possibly with the addition of an unheated rear wing. A 20th-century lean-to was added to the left-hand side. While it is possible the building started as an open hall house, verification requires roof-space inspection, which was not possible during the survey; however, evidence of an early roof structure does exist.

The front facade is asymmetrical, with a four-window arrangement featuring late 19th-century 12-pane sashes, along with an early 19th-century one on the ground floor and a matching 20-pane sash on the first floor to the right. Decorative 19th-century bargeboards are above the first-floor windows. A 19th-century six-panelled door is positioned to the right of centre, sheltered by a latticed wooden porch with similar bargeboards. A doorway leads to the passage at the left-hand end, with the outbuilding extending beyond it. The rear wing, set back from the right-hand end, has early 19th-century horizontal sliding 8-pane sashes and an 18th-century square section two-light mullion window on its outer face. A 20th-century lean-to porch sits in the angle between the wing and main range.

Inside, the passage contains a small, chamfered, square-headed wooden doorframe. An early to mid 17th-century ovolo-moulded wooden doorframe leads into the hall. The hall features a fireplace with a chamfered wooden lintel and chamfered ceiling beams. The inner room contains a plank and muntin screen, likely from the 16th century and possibly reused, exhibiting chamfered, stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops and mason's mitres to the headbeam. A peaked-head, chamfered wooden doorframe connects the hall to the wing, which also has chamfered ceiling beams. The roof structure over the main range comprises substantial principal rafters, with threaded purlins and morticed collars; accessing the roof space to check for smoke-blackening was not possible during the survey.