Hams And Water Farmhouse Including Shippon Adjoining To South

Hams and Water Farmhouse, which includes a shippon adjoining to the south, is a farmhouse that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. The building features colour washed stone rubble walls and has a gable-ended asbestos slate roof. There are two rendered stone rubble stacks with slate dripcourses, one axial and one located at the left gable end. The original house has a two-room plan, which may have originally been three rooms, with a cross passage at the center leading to newel stairs at the rear. The left-hand room is heated by the gable stack, while the right-hand room has an axial stack backing onto the passage. The third room at the right-hand end is an addition, likely replacing an earlier inner room. The house was internally remodelled in the 18th century and extended by a parallel block along the rear wall in the 19th century.

The farmhouse is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical five-window front. The right-hand end of the original part features 19th-century three-light casements with small panes and H-L hinges on both the ground and first floors. The other windows are early 19th-century twelve-pane hornless sashes set in frames with beaded edges. At the center of the front is an 18th-century six-fielded panel door, with the top two panels glazed, beneath a contemporary door hood with a moulded cornice supported by wooden columns. The projecting one-room addition at the right-hand end has a 19th-century three-light casement with small panes on the first floor and a 20th-century plank door below it.

Inside, the axial fireplace has had a later grate inserted, but the original heavy wooden lintel remains exposed. The wooden newel stairs have been renewed, and there are several 18th-century two-fielded panel doors. The central room on the first floor features one fielded panelled partition. The roof was inaccessible during the survey, but substantial feet of straight principal rafters are visible on the first floor, indicating that the roof structure is likely of interest. The listing also includes a mid-19th-century shippon attached at the left-hand end, which is two storeys high with a three-window front, and the first-floor openings have stone arches above them.