Corstone Farmhouse

Corstone Farmhouse is a farmhouse that underwent remodelling in the 17th century, originally built as an earlier, possibly late medieval house, with 19th-century alterations and additions. The building features rendered cob walls and a gable-ended slate roof, along with three brick stacks: one at the left gable end with an oven projection and two axial stacks.

The farmhouse has a very long three-room-and-cross-passage plan, although the original layout is not entirely clear. The right end, where the passage is located, appears to have been extended, while the room at the opposite left end functioned as a kitchen in the 17th century and may have originally had a passage at its inner end, as it includes a back door. It is likely that the house was extended and significantly remodelled in the 17th century, possibly when an open hall was ceiled and the room uses were altered. The present passage may have been inserted in the 19th century when the house was modernised and extended by one room at the right-hand end.

The exterior is two storeys high with a long asymmetrical front featuring five windows. The first floor has early 20th-century three-light casements, while the ground floor includes two early 19th-century hornless 16-pane sashes to the left and right of centre. Between these sashes is an early 19th-century six-panel door behind a 20th-century part-glazed porch. There is also a 19th-century plank door at the far right-hand end where the house adjoins an adjacent barn.

Inside, the left-hand room has a large plastered fireplace opening and chamfered cross beams. The hall contains heavy beams with deep chamfers and bar and hollow step stops, though the fireplaces are blocked. Some 18th-century two-panel doors remain. The roof over the hall features substantial trusses that are likely early, possibly medieval, although access to the roof space was not available for confirmation.