Pixton Farmhouse

Pixton Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, possibly with late medieval origins. It features plastered cob walls and a gable-ended thatch roof. There is a brick chimney stack at the left gable end and a partly projecting plastered rubble lateral stack at the front. The layout consists of a three-room and through-passage plan, with the lower end to the left heated by the gable end stack, the hall heated by the front lateral stack, and an unheated inner room.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical four-window front. The windows are primarily 19th-century casements, with mainly two-light windows on the first floor and three-light windows on the ground floor, except for an early 19th-century partly leaded-pane three-light casement on the right of the first floor. To the left of centre, there is a 20th-century gabled open-fronted porch with a mid-19th-century six-panel door behind it. The chimney stack to its right projects slightly on the left side but continues in line to the right, creating a slight window bay for the hall. At the top of the chimney stack, there is a small slate sundial dated 1720. To the right, there is a 19th-century plank door. The left part of the house features an ovolo-moulded wooden wall-plate below the eaves.

Inside, the hall has two moulded cross-beams, one of which is a half beam at the higher end. Below it, there is early 17th-century panelling above an integral bench that has a decorative bench end with two finials. The inner room contains a chamfered axial beam with pyramid stops. The hall fireplace is blocked, but part of the chamfered wooden lintel is visible. The roof space was inaccessible during the survey, but on the first floor, substantial feet of straight principals are visible, suggesting a 17th-century or early 18th-century date, although this cannot be confirmed without further inspection, and earlier timbers may still be present. Other early internal features may also be concealed.