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This is a house, originally a farmhouse, dating to approximately 1500, with alterations made in the early to mid 17th century. It is constructed of plastered and rendered rubble walls with a gable-ended roof. The roof has areas of grouted slate on the left-hand side and concrete tile on the right-hand side. A brick axial stack is present, along with a stack at the left-hand end.

The original layout was likely a 2 or 3-room-and-through-passage plan, with the lower end of the house situated to the right. The inner room was probably added in the 17th century, which also saw the replacement of the central hall's hearth with a fireplace at its upper end. While typically the open hall would have been floored and a chamber built above, this house retains a single-story hall due to a lack of headroom; the house is two stories high at each end, with separate staircases. A window bay at the front of the hall may be original or part of the 17th-century remodeling. At some point, the lower end of the house was demolished below the passage.

The exterior has an asymmetrical 2-window front, with a single-story projecting central section. The first floor has a 2-light casement window to the left and a 19th-century casement to the right, along with a late 19th or early 20th-century 4-pane sash window below. The projection features a late 19th-century 2-light small-paned casement window. A wide 19th-century plank door is located to the right, sheltered by a pentice roof. Lean-to outbuildings adjoin each end of the house.

Inside, the inner room features a small open fireplace with a rough wooden lintel and a clom oven. A roughly chamfered axial ceiling beam is also present. The hall fireplace has a chamfered wooden lintel with an ogee stop. There is an 18th-century wall cupboard in the hall, with a fielded panel door.

The roof over the hall and passage retains the original smoke-blackened structure, featuring two pairs of raised crucks, morticed cranked collars, a diagonal ridge, and threaded purlins. This is a notable example of a modest hall house that has retained its single-story hall into the present day.