Shilstone Farmhouse

Shilstone Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, possibly with earlier origins, and has a late 20th-century extension. The building features plastered cob walls and a gable-ended thatched roof, with two brick stacks—one axial and one at the left-hand gable end—along with a projecting rendered rubble stack at the gable end of the wing. The farmhouse has an L-shaped plan, which may have originally consisted of three rooms with a through passage, with the lower end to the left and a hall stack backing onto the passage. Around the late 17th century, the higher end was likely remodelled into a one-room plan wing that projects to the front and is heated by an end stack. The house underwent modernisation in the early 19th century, and a rear extension was added in the 20th century.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical two-window front and an equally sized wing to the right. It features three and four-light 19th-century casements on the first floor, along with an early 19th-century 16-pane hornless sash on the ground floor to the left. To the right of this sash is a contemporary six-panel door with a doorhood above supported on wooden brackets. The wing has a similar 16-pane sash on the first floor and a 20th-century three-light casement below. The thatch rises in an eyebrow over the first-floor window. Each floor of the wing has a blocked window opening at the gable end. At the rear of the house is a 20th-century one-storey addition.

The interior was inaccessible at the time of the survey but is likely to contain original features such as beams, open fireplaces, and possibly an early roof structure, although these may have been concealed by 19th-century modernisation. There may also be good quality early 19th-century joinery present.