Shepherds

This is a house, possibly dating back to the medieval period, with significant remodelling occurring around the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The house is constructed from stone rubble, with a thatched roof gabled at each end. Rendered stacks are visible at the gable ends and one on the ridge. A blocked squint on the first floor, positioned above the inner room, indicates the house may have originally been an open hall house before the inner room was partitioned off. It has a 3-room plan, possibly with a cross or through passage, with the hall stack backing onto the passage and a 2-storey porch. A front gabled projection adjoining the porch may have been added in the late 16th century when the hall was ceiled over and the hall stack was inserted. A 19th-century staircase was later added to the passage, and a single-storey rear addition with a slate lean-to roof is likely from the 19th century. The inner room is now used for storage.

The front of the building has an asymmetrical 4-window arrangement with a centrally positioned, thatched, 2-storey porch, and a steeply-pitched, thatched gabled projection to the right. The inner doorway of the porch features an ovolo-moulded design and incorporates timber benches. The windows are a mix of 19th and 20th-century styles: ground and first floor windows to the left are 3-light 19th-century casements with square leaded panes. A similar window is located to the right of the porch, and a 1-light 6-pane window sits to the left of the porch. A 2-light 19th-century casement with square leaded panes is found in the porch window and on the first floor to the right. The first floor window within the gabled projection is a 3-light casement with glazing bars.

Inside, the hall fireplace has a likely 16th-century chamfered granite lintel supported by a corbel with a curved profile, a style found in the nearby Lew Trenchard and Brentor parishes. The porch room and a first-floor room to the left retain remnants of 17th-century moulded plaster cornices; the cornice in the first-floor room is carried around the principals with curved feet. Roof access was unavailable during a 1985 survey, but the trusses over the lower end are almost certainly 17th century or earlier, suggesting a possibly medieval roof exists above the hall.