Goodcott Farmhouse

Goodcott Farmhouse is a house, likely of late medieval origin with additions and alterations spanning the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. It is constructed of plastered cob and rubble walls, with a gable ended slate roof. A small brick shaft is visible at the left gable end, and a tall projecting rubble stack is situated at the front.

Originally built with a two-room and through-passage plan, the house features a hall to the right, heated by a front lateral stack and an unheated lower room to the left. It is possible the hall stack relates to a 17th-century remodelling of an earlier medieval house, though direct evidence is lacking. A projecting window bay adjoins the hall stack. An 18th or early 19th-century addition, originally a granary, extends from the right end of the hall, with a former malthouse beyond. The granary has been converted to domestic use and retains a thick malting floor on its upper level. An outshut, likely added in the early 19th century, projects from the rear of the passage and lower end, and a stack was likely inserted at the gable end of the lower room at this time.

The front of the original house section has an asymmetrical three-window appearance to the left. First-floor windows are 19th-century 3-light casements. A late 20th-century 3-light ovolo-moulded wooden mullion window is on the ground floor to the left. To the right of the centre is a single-story projecting hall window containing a 2-light early 20th-century casement and a squint window on its left side. Adjacent is the projecting lateral stack with a large semi-circular oven projection. A late 19th-century gabled porch with decorative barge-board and a 19th-century plank door is located to the left of the centre. A former outbuilding at the right-hand end of the house has late 20th-century 2-light square section mullion windows and stone steps leading to a first-floor doorway for the former granary. A flat roof extends from the right of the steps to an outshut projecting from the front of the malthouse at the right-hand end, with two doors situated underneath.

Inside the hall, there are two chamfered axial beams with run-out stops. The fireplace has a plain wooden lintel, which may not be original. A small 17th-century wall cupboard with H-hinges is located beside the fireplace. The roof retains four 17th-century trusses with trenched purlins and collars halved on with curved notch joints.

Goodcott is mentioned in the Domesday Book, suggesting a house of some importance. Although relatively few early features survive, the farmhouse retains a traditional exterior and a largely unaltered plan form.