Tadworthy House

Tadworthy House is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, originally built in the early to mid 17th century and later remodelled and extended in the early 19th century. It is constructed of rendered stone and cob, with slate roofs featuring gabled ends, particularly at the lower north end. The building has gable-end and front lateral stacks with set-offs.

The plan consists of a three-room layout with a cross or through-passage, although the passage partitions have been removed. There is a small unheated inner room on the right (south), a hall with a lateral stack on the front, and a lower left (north) room that was remodelled as a parlour in the 17th century, featuring a gable-end stack. A wing was added behind the low end during the 17th century, which contains one room and a stair hall.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical five/three window arrangement on the west front, featuring 12 and 16-pane sash windows with slate cills. The ground floor has a smaller wooden mullion window for the inner room, and the doorway to the left of centre is framed by a 20th-century wooden porch, with a lateral stack to the right of centre rising from the front wall. The north side has sash windows with glazing bars, while the rear (east) features a gabled wing on the right with a stack and a smaller 17th-century wing at the centre that was extended in the 19th century.

Inside, the low left-hand room includes an ovolo-moulded and stopped cross-beam, along with scratch-moulded joists. There is a large gable-end fireplace with ovolo-moulded stone jambs and an ovolo-moulded wooden bressumer. Although the cross/through-passage partitions have been removed, ovolo-moulded head-beams and scratch-moulded joists remain. The hall features a roughly chamfered cross-beam, unchamfered joists, and a large lateral fireplace at the front with a high, roughly chamfered bressumer. A solid wall separates the small inner room from the hall. The early 19th-century staircase has mahogany column newels, a handrail, stick balusters, and shaped tread-ends. The central rear wing includes a Georgian grate in the chamber fireplace and roof trusses with dovetail lapped collars. The main range has two trusses over the passage with trenched purlins, and the roof over the high south end has been replaced.