Maplehill Farmhouse

Maplehill Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 16th century, with modifications from the 17th century and a 20th-century addition and alterations. The structure features rendered cob and rubble walls and has a gable-ended asbestos slate roof. There is a brick axial stack that is offset from the ridge and a small brick shaft at the right gable end.

The layout follows a 3-room-and-through-passage plan, although the long lower room on the left was originally a barn and has since been converted, with the front doorway of the passage now blocked. The hall stack backs onto the passage. Most of the interior features date from the 17th century, indicating a significant remodelling that may have included the flooring in of an open hall, although there is no surviving evidence of this in the roof. The large inner room is characteristic of 17th-century remodelling and includes a winder staircase in a projection at the front. A rear outshut was added in the early to mid-20th century, and there is a further staircase that rises from the rear of the hall behind the stack, though its date is unclear.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical three-window front, featuring four windows on the ground floor. Most of these are 20th-century small-paned casements, with the exception of the right-hand window on the first floor, which is likely from the 19th century. There is a rectangular stair projection at the right end, with a late 19th-century or 20th-century lean-to porch adjoining to its left, which has a 20th-century part-glazed door. At the rear, there is a slight projection for stairs behind the hall stack, along with a 20th-century outshut to the left.

Inside, there is a 16th-century heavy wooden doorframe from the former passage to the hall, featuring jowelled jambs and a segmental-headed lintel that is chamfered on the passage side. The hall fireplace has a chamfered wooden lintel with crude stops and a cloam oven. The inner room has rough joists in the ceiling and a rebuilt fireplace. The wooden winder stairs are located in the front projection. The roof, dating from the 18th or early 19th century, consists of rough straight principal rafters.