Davoncourt Farmhouse

Davoncourt Farmhouse is a house, formerly a farmhouse, dating from the mid to late 17th century, with a 20th-century addition. It features rendered cob walls and a hipped thatch roof, along with a 20th-century rebuilt brick axial stack and a 20th-century shaft at the rear. The layout consists of a three-room plan with a baffle entry in front of the axial stack, which serves the left-hand and central rooms. The right-hand room was likely used for non-domestic or agricultural purposes, but it was converted and the house was extended with an additional room at the right end in the later 20th century. A 19th-century outshut has been added behind the left-hand end.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical front featuring five windows that are 20th-century two and three-light casements. To the left of centre, there is a 20th-century plank door beneath a thatched door hood supported by wooden posts. Inside, the left-hand and central rooms have chamfered ceiling beams with run-out stops and open back-to-back fireplaces with similarly decorated wooden lintels. The roof trusses are likely original, consisting of substantial straight principals with trenched purlins, although collars are not visible. This house is a notable example of the baffle entry plan, which was an alternative design found in some areas of Devon from the early 17th century onwards.