House About 15 Metres North West Of Foghanger House

This is a house, now used as an outbuilding, with origins in the medieval period and altered in the 17th century. It is constructed of stone rubble with a corrugated iron roof, originally thatched. The building began as a two-bay open hall house. In the early 17th century, a stack was inserted backing onto the through passage, and a two-storey porch was added. The lower end of the house was dismantled, likely in the 18th or 19th century, leaving the porch, hall, and a stair turret. There is no evidence the house ever had an inner room. It is two storeys high, with one window to the porch and no surviving windows to the hall block. The porch is gabled and two-storey, with a stair turret set at a right angle between the porch and hall. The porch has a chamfered granite doorway with a Tudor arch above a two-light casement window with three panes per light. The hall has a 20th-century entrance under a long timber lintel.

Inside the open hall, three smoke-blackened trusses survive, featuring raised crucks, arch braces, and cambered collars. The ridge is diagonally-set, and one purlin remains of what was originally two tiers of threaded purlins; one principal has been replaced. When the hall was ceiled over, truncating one principal which now rests on a beam in the turret, the ceiling was constructed with a large chamfered cross beam with bar stops. On the passage side, the joists are chamfered with ogee stops; on the other side, they are ovolo-moulded with run-out stops. The fireplace has granite, chamfered stopped jambs, with a replacement lintel. A chamfered square-headed doorway leads into the passage. A stone newel staircase, with cemented steps, rises to a small lobby upstairs, with two doorways leading into the porch chamber. One doorway has run-out chamfers, one is chamfered and stopped but partly obscured by a 20th-century concrete pillar. Further steps lead to the first-floor room above the hall through a chamfered and stopped Caernarvon arched doorframe. The porch chamber retains early plaster. 20th-century timbers have been added to the medieval roof, likely when the pitch was altered from thatch to slate and one of the old purlins now rests on the outside of a principal. The passage is truncated in front of the stack, which occurred during the demolition of the lower end.