Dornaford Farmhouse

Dornaford Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with a 19th-century addition. It features rendered stone rubble and cob walls, with the stonework on the ground floor exposed at the front. The roof is gable-ended and covered with corrugated asbestos. There is an axial brick stack on a stone base and a projecting rendered rubble stack at the left gable end with a brick shaft. The plan consists of a three-room layout with a through passage, an unheated lower room to the right, and a hall heated by a stack at its inner end. Newel stairs project at the rear of the hall, and a 19th-century outshut has been added behind the inner room.

The exterior is two storeys high, with an asymmetrical three-window front featuring late 20th-century three-light casements on the first floor. On the ground floor, there is an early 20th-century two-light casement to the right of centre, followed by a later one without glazing bars. To the left, there are 20th-century glazed double doors, and a 19th-century panelled door leads to the passage at right of centre. Attached to the right-hand end is a shippon from the late 18th or early 19th century, featuring a corrugated iron roof, three doorways, and a central first-floor loading hatch. The rear elevation includes a 17th-century two-light chamfered wooden mullion window, and at the centre is a rectangular stair projection with a 19th-century outshut to its right.

Inside, the hall and inner room have chamfered ceiling beams with hollow step stops, while the lower room has a chamfered beam with run-out stops. The hall features an open fireplace with a chamfered wooden lintel and granite jambs. There are wood newel stairs at the rear of the hall. A chamfered 17th-century door frame leads from the passage to the lower room, with a lintel that is chamfered as if for two openings, suggesting it may have been reused. The roof over the inner room has a plastered principal rafter with a curved foot, but access difficulties to the loft prevented a full examination to determine if it was a medieval truss. The other roof timbers have been replaced with insubstantial trusses resting on the wall-plates.