Frankland Farmhouse

Frankland Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 16th century, with alterations and an addition from the 17th century. The building features rendered cob walls and a gable-ended slate roof, supported by three brick stacks—two axial and one at the left-hand end. The layout consists of a three-room and through passage plan, with the lower end situated to the left. Originally, the hall was open to the roof with a central hearth, but it was floored in the early to mid-17th century when the hall stack was inserted, backing onto the passage. The stacks for the lower end and inner room were likely added later. In the 17th century, a one-room wing was added to the front of the inner room, featuring a large fireplace at its gable end. This wing has independent external access and no internal connection to the house, suggesting it may have originally served as a bakehouse. A 19th-century outshut was added at the rear.

The exterior of the farmhouse is two storeys high and asymmetrical, with a three-window front featuring early 20th-century small-paned two and three-light casements. There is a 19th-century panelled and glazed door at the centre, with an oven projection to its right. A projecting wing is located at the right-hand end, with a door at the centre of its inner face, and a 19th-century outbuilding is attached at the left-hand end.

Inside, the hall contains a fireplace with a high chamfered wooden lintel and granite jamb to the right, which is chamfered on both sides and has a shaped corbel above it. To the right of the fireplace is a beam that is chamfered with notched stops. The inner room features a chamfered axial beam and has a 13th-century wall cupboard with panelled doors in its front wall. The roof retains a smoke-blackened medieval structure over the hall, with the higher end-hall truss featuring a morticed cranked collar, threaded purlins, and a diagonal ridge.