Witcombe Farmhouse

Witcombe Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century to the late 17th century, with later alterations in the late 18th century to the early 19th century and the mid- to late-19th century. It is constructed of random squared and dressed limestone to the main body, with extensions in brick and coursed squared and dressed limestone, and has a concrete tile roof with brick stacks on ashlar stumps. The building has a complex plan, comprising an early range running north-south with a slightly later 17th-century range running east-west adjoining it, along with a late 18th-century to early 19th-century range and a 19th-century stone-built extension at right angles on the south side. A 19th-century stable block is not of special interest.

The early range may have been built in two phases. The north side has a Cotswold dormer window on the upper right. There is a 3-light double-chamfered stone-mullioned casement with a hollow-moulded mullion and hood moulding lower left, and a 3-light casement with restored mullions and a stopped hood to the right. Two 2-light casements and a single-light casement with a double-chamfered surround are on the first floor; a small window with 4 bull's-eye glass panes is in the gable of the Cotswold dormer. The south front of the later 17th-century range features two 2-light 19th-century stone-mullioned casements and a 2-light wooden casement. A 20th-century panelled door is set within an open-sided, gabled 19th-century porch, which has a stone inscription reading 'LOVE THE TRUTH / SIN GOD DOTH HAT(E) / AND BE CONTENT WITH THINE ESTATE'. A roughly incised inscription, 'W. Bub 1845', is located lower left, referencing monuments within the churchyard of the Church of the Holy Trinity in Badgeworth. The late 18th-century to early 19th-century extension to the right has two 20th-century 3-light casements to its rendered gable end, and the 19th-century extension has two 2-light 20th-century casements. Stepped gable end coping, axial design, and projecting, gable-end stacks are present.

Inside the early range, intersecting beams display decorative ceiling plasterwork, including two panels with a large lozenge at the centre of each panel and fleur de lys at the corners. A Tudor-arched stone fireplace, now painted with white glass paint, is in an adjoining room, featuring simple continual incised zig-zag and 'U' decoration, initialled and dated 'C.H. 1665'. Above the mantelshelf is plasterwork with a cherub’s head within an oval, two women’s faces within lozenges linked to the oval, two rose motifs, and two bellflower motifs. An upstairs room contains a beam with deep flat chamfers and pecked decoration at the edges, with a fleur de lys at the midpoint. A small Tudor-arched fireplace with a flat-chamfered surround decorated with motifs resembling playing card suits is in the same room. Deep flat chamfered beams and wall panelling are present in the later 17th-century range.