Cider House

The Cider House is a building that was originally a barn with living accommodation at one end, likely part of the domestic buildings associated with Buckland Abbey. It probably dates from the late medieval period but has been significantly rebuilt and altered in the later 20th century. The structure features stone rubble walls and a gable-ended slate roof, with two rebuilt rubble stacks at the gable ends.

The original layout is unclear, but pre-alteration photographs indicate a long barn range extending to the right, with a cross wing at the left end that housed domestic accommodation. In the later 20th century, a similar cross wing was added to the right end, extending to the rear. The building was completely modernised internally during this time, and it now includes a large room in each cross wing, with a corridor at the front connecting the two and smaller rooms at the rear.

The building is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical front with three windows, gabled at either end and featuring a projecting wing at the right-hand end. The windows are 20th-century three-light casements. The left-hand gable has an arched hoodmould over the first-floor window, which appears to be original, and below it is a chamfered granite four-centred arched doorway that may also be contemporary. Both of these features have been replicated in the later right-hand gable, beyond which the wing projects. At the rear, there are two parallel projecting wings that have re-used or reconstructed mullioned windows and granite arched doorways. The interior has been much altered by the 20th-century modernisation, with few original features remaining.