Falkedon Farmhouse (North) Including Garden Walls Adjoining To The South-East

This is a farmhouse dating to the mid-17th century, likely with an earlier core, refurbished in the 18th century and modernised in the early 19th century. The walls are plastered cob on stone rubble footings, with stone rubble stacks, one retaining its original granite ashlar chimneyshaft, and an asbestos slate roof, previously thatched.

The house was originally a 3-room-and-through-passage plan, facing south-east. The left-hand room, possibly formerly a dairy, has a gable-end stack, which may be a 19th-century addition. The hall has an axial stack backing onto the passage, and the service end room, a parlour, has a projecting gable-end stack. A kitchen block projects at right angles to the rear of the inner room, with a large gable-end stack, and a granary block projects at right angles to the rear of the parlour. The plan suggests possible origins as an open hall house dating back to the 16th century. The house is now two storeys throughout.

The front has an irregular three-window arrangement with mostly 19th and 20th-century casements with glazing bars. At the right end are 19th-century 16-pane sashes; one to the parlour and another to the chamber above, the lower one being taller. The passage front doorway has a 19th-century 6-panel door, similar to a door on the rear, with a panelled doorcase and a flat hood resting on shaped brackets. The roof is gable-ended. At the back of the granary, an external stone staircase leads to a first-floor doorway.

Inside, the service end parlour has an 18th-century crockery cupboard with shaped shelves and a blocked fireplace with a 20th-century grate. The hall features a large granite fireplace with a soffit-chamfered oak lintel with straight cut-stopped detail and a soffit-chamfered crossbeam with step stops including one pyramid stop. The inner room fireplace has a 20th-century grate. The kitchen suffered a fire that damaged the fireplace lintel and charred the crossbeam. Throughout the house there is plentiful 18th-century joinery, including two-panel doors with H-hinges and cupboards with panelled doors. The roof is inaccessible but exposed bases of straight principals suggest A-frame trusses, likely dating from the 17th or 18th centuries.

The front garden is enclosed by a tall garden wall. Most of the wall is cob on stone rubble footings with tile coping, but the south-west side, alongside the lane, was rebuilt in the 19th century using local stone rubble.