Hollow Panson Farmhouse

Hollow Panson Farmhouse is an 18th-century farmhouse constructed of stone rubble with a hipped slate roof. It features a large brick axial stack in the main range, a smaller stack at the right end, and a stack with a brick shaft at the gable end of the rear wing, which has a scantle slate roof. The building has a two-room single depth main range with an unusually wide central entrance hall, and the rear kitchen wing has what may be a truncated projecting end stack, forming an overall T-plan. The stairs are located in the rear wing. The farmhouse is two storeys tall and has a cellar under the left-hand side of the main range.

The front of the house is symmetrical with three bays, although the right-hand bay is partly obscured by two single-storey 20th-century service rooms. The central bay projects forward and features a central doorway with a flat stone arch and a keystone, topped by a sloping slated canopy supported by timber brackets. Flanking the doorway are two-light casements with glazing bars and keystones. Other windows on the building are three-light casements with four panes per light.

Inside, while the apex of the main range is inaccessible, it appears to be similar to that of the rear wing, which has pegged trusses halved at the apex, straight collars, threaded purlins, and no ridge. The roof trusses are likely from the early to mid-18th century. The central entrance hall contains a large unmoulded cross beam and exposed joists, with 20th-century grates in the chimney stacks. Hollow Panson Farmhouse is a notable example of an 18th-century two-room plan farmhouse with a rear service wing, representing a rare plan and date for West Devon.