Braddon

Braddon is a house with a 17th-century core, largely rebuilt in the early 18th century and altered in the late 19th century and 1940s. The exterior is colourwashed plastered cob on stone rubble footings, with corrugated asbestos roofs, hipped at the right end and gabled at the left. Two rendered stacks sit on the ridge, at the junction between the two building blocks.

The original 17th-century plan may have been a two- or three-room layout with a cross passage and an unheated lower end. This had a heated hall with a stack at the inner end, and a projecting rear stair turret serving the hall. The right-hand block of the present building represents the lower end and stair turret; the cross passage partition no longer exists. Around the early 18th century, the inner room (now the left-hand block) was either added or completely rebuilt, with a stack at this end abutting the hall stack. The roof was raised in the 1940s, replacing thatch with corrugated asbestos. A break in the front plane suggests that the lower end may also have been rebuilt; it is now used for storage and has no loft access to the main house.

The house is two storeys high, with an asymmetrical four-window front, the left-hand block under a lower roof. A gabled brick porch and a 19th-century six-panel front door lead into the former passage on the right-hand side. There is a separate entrance to the left-hand block via a single-storey lean-to with a slate roof. A ground-floor window to the left of the porch is a late 19th-century 3-light casement with three panes per light. Other windows are 20th-century replacements, with enlarged openings, including three first-floor gabled dormers. A loft entrance is located on the right return, leading into the loft over the lower end. The rear stair turret is rounded and has a catslide roof. Originally, there were likely no rear windows because the house is built against a slope.

Inside the right-hand block, there are late 17th-century roof trusses with straight collars halved and pegged into roughly chamfered principal rafters, halved and pegged at the apex. Modern trusses sit above the 17th-century roof. The hall fireplace has been rebuilt in the 20th century. The floor of the inner room has been lowered, and the stone rubble jambs of the fireplace have been rebuilt, failing to meet the straight cut stops of the chamfered timber lintel. The stair turret contains a timber newel staircase.