Stocken Farmhouse

Stocken Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid 17th century, possibly with earlier origins. It is constructed of roughcast cob and features a steeply pitched corrugated asbestos roof with gabled ends. The gable end stacks have been rebuilt with red brick shafts; the right-hand stack is large and projects, while the left-hand stack is smaller and also projects.

The plan of the interior is uncertain as it was not inspected, but it is single depth and likely consists of three rooms. The large room at the right-hand end is probably the hall or kitchen, heated by a gable end stack, and has a stair turret at the back. The left-hand room may have served as the parlour, also heated by a gable end stack, or it could have originally been an unheated service room. There is said to be a small unheated service room at the center, with an axial passage leading to a central entrance that is slightly projected at the front.

The exterior is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical three-window front. The central doorway is set in a narrow two-storey projection, featuring a 20th-century door on the ground floor and a 20th-century two-light casement window on both the ground and first floors. To the right, there is a large late 20th-century ground floor casement with no window above it. The central doorway is accompanied by a late 20th-century glazed lean-to porch. The rear elevation includes a rectangular projecting stair tower to the left of center.

The interior was inaccessible during the survey in 1987, but it is reported that there is an old bench in the right-hand room, some 17th-century panelling, and newel stairs in the turret behind the right-hand room. The roof structure may also be of interest.