Furzehill Farmhouse

Furzehill Farmhouse is a house, originally a farmhouse, dating from around the mid-17th century, with additions from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The walls are a mix of plastered cob and rubble. The left-hand part of the roof is hipped and thatched, while the right-hand end has a gabled corrugated iron roof. A brick stack is at the right gable, and a rubble stack with a dripcourse and brick shaft is located axially. The original layout comprised two heated rooms; the larger room to the right was the hall, featuring a slightly projecting window bay on its left end, likely with an integral outshut behind the left-hand room. An outbuilding, recently converted, at the left-hand end is probably an 18th or 19th-century addition. A 19th-century outshut was added behind the right-hand room, and a 20th-century one was added behind the converted left-hand end.

The front elevation is asymmetrical, with five windows. The left-hand section, with a thatched roof, has late 20th-century two-light casement windows; the first-floor windows are dormers. A 20th-century thatched porch is centrally positioned, with a part-glazed door and a 20th-century metal frame two-light casement to its right. Single-light 20th-century casements are above. To the right of the porch is a projecting hall bay featuring a 17th-century three-light wooden mullion window with leaded panes on the first floor. A 19th-century three-light casement is below. A very small window at an intermediate level, possibly for a newel staircase, is located to the right of the stack. The rear elevation has a small 17th-century two-light wooden mullion window on the first floor. Three outshuts run along the rear wall, with the central one being the earliest.

Inside, the right-hand room has an original fireplace with chamfered stone jambs and a hollow step-stopped chamfered wooden lintel. It also features chamfered ceiling beams with chamfered and hollow step-stopped joists. The window bay contains a possible original wooden seat that extends around the partition to the adjoining room. The left-hand room has a fireplace with a plain wooden lintel. An ovolo-moulded wooden doorframe leads to the outshut. The roof structure is a simple 18th-century pegged roof with collars set into the rough straight principals. Despite its modest size, the house retains some good quality original features.