Smallmarsh Farm

Smallmarsh Farm is a farmhouse and outbuilding, now a house, dating to the mid-17th century, with a late 19th-century addition and late 20th-century alterations. The structure is built of rendered cob and stone, with a gable-ended wheatstraw thatched roof. Brick end stacks are present. A 19th-century wing is constructed of uncoursed stone rubble with red-brick dressings and a gable-ended Welsh-slate roof. A former outbuilding has 20th-century render and a gable-ended clay-tile roof.

The original plan consisted of two rooms facing southwest. The larger principal room is to the right, with an integral end stack, and a smaller, formerly unheated, room to the left. A late 19th-century wing projects at right angles to the rear of the left-hand end. The 19th-century alterations likely included the insertion of the external end stack to the left-hand room. The first floor in the left-hand room was removed in the late 20th century, and a staircase was inserted at the same time. The front door was moved from the center to the left-hand end, possibly in the 19th century but probably in the late 20th century.

The building is two storeys high. The front elevation is asymmetrical. It features two first-floor horizontal-sliding glazing bar sashes and a central ground-floor casement with a pegged wooden frame and 20th-century leading, likely replacing a former doorway. A doorway to the left has a 20th-century frame and door, and a wooden lintel. The right-hand gable end has two first-floor windows: a 20th-century metal casement to the left and a wooden casement to the right, and a former doorway to the left with a wooden lintel and an inserted window with an old pegged wooden frame and 20th-century leading. The rear wing features a two-light segmental-headed wooden casement in its gable end.

Inside, the right-hand ground-floor room retains a 17th-century chamfered spine beam with ogee stops and plain joists. An open 17th-century fireplace is on the right with splayed stone jambs, a chamfered wooden lintel (the right-hand end shortened), and a bread oven with a cast-iron door to the left. This room has a 19th-century matchboarded dado and a front window seat. The left-hand ground-floor room, now the entrance/staircase hall, has a 20th-century staircase and has had its floor removed, evident by a ledge on the wall.