Solland Farmhouse

Solland Farmhouse is a farmhouse from the early 17th century, possibly with medieval origins, and altered in the 19th century. It features rendered cob walls and a thatched roof that is gabled at the left end and hipped at the right end. There is a slightly projecting rendered rubble stack at the left gable end with a brick shaft, a brick axial stack, and a projecting rubble and granite ashlar lateral stack at the rear with a brick shaft. Additionally, a brick stack is adjacent to it.

The plan consists of a 3-room-and-through-passage layout, with the lower end to the right, which may have been extended at the higher end. The hall stack backs onto the passage, while the lower room is heated by the rear lateral stack. The house was likely extended at the higher end in the 18th or 19th century when an untreated wing was added to the rear. In the early to mid-19th century, a passage was created between the hall and inner room, and stairs were added to the rear wing.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical front featuring four windows, which are small-paned 2 and 3-light casements from the early 20th century. To the left of centre, there is a 19th-century six-panel door with a rectangular fanlight above. In front of the right-hand end of the house, a cob wall encloses a small courtyard, and a 19th-century four-panel door opens from the house into this space. At the rear, a wide wing projects from the right-hand end, accompanied by a cob lean-to on its left.

Inside, the hall has a framed beamed ceiling, although the beams are cased in plaster. The higher end wall features a section of 17th-century panelling that would have formed a rack for a bench. The roof structure from the 18th century is of a simple pegged A-frame type, but the presence of a smoke-blackened common rafter by the hall stacks suggests that a medieval roof may have preceded it.