Buskin Farmhouse

Buskin Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates back to the 16th century, with a 17th-century addition and 19th-century alterations. The building features rendered cob walls and a gable-ended slate roof, which was formerly thatched. It has three stone stacks, two of which are axial and made of granite ashlar with brick shafts, while the right gable end has a rendered projecting rubble stack.

The layout consists of a three-room and through-passage plan, which may have originally been open to the roof, although access to confirm this is not available. The lower room on the left and the hall both have axial fireplaces that back onto the passage, and the inner room is heated by a gable end fireplace. In the 17th century, an outshut was added at the rear of the hall, and a staircase was added in a projection adjoining it in the 18th century. A cross-passage to the staircase was created at the higher end of the hall in the 19th century.

The exterior is two storeys high and features an asymmetrical five-window front with 19th-century two and three-light casements, and 20th-century windows on the right side of the ground floor. There is a part-glazed door to the left of centre and a shallow area projection to the right of centre. At the rear, there is a central outshut with a blocked two-light chamfered wooden mullion window in its left-hand higher end wall, partly obscured by the stair projection.

Inside, the hall has a framed ceiling with chamfered beams, some featuring pyramid stops, creating six panels, interrupted by an inserted wall at the higher end. The inner room has chamfered cross beams, and while the fireplaces have been blocked, the plain exterior of the house conceals an interesting interior with a high-quality hall ceiling and other early features that are likely hidden.