Pitt And Adjoining Outbuildings

This is a former farmhouse with adjoining cider house and outbuildings, dating to the early 17th century. It may incorporate elements of an earlier house, with 20th-century renovations. The main house is constructed of whitewashed rendered cob and stone, while the cider house has a slate roof; the main block is thatched with a hipped left end. It has a rear lateral stack, a projecting front lateral stack with a granite shaft, and an internal front lateral stack with a brick shaft.

The original layout comprised a single depth, three-room plan, formerly with a through passage. The lower end of the house has been altered, with a possible 18th or 19th-century stack. The partition between the passage and hall has been removed, and the original front door to the passage has been replaced with a window, leading to access now being through a former outbuilding on the left return.

The front elevation is asymmetrical with two windows on the ground floor, both 2-light timber casements with glazing bars. There are no windows on the first floor. The inner return of the cider barn has a doorway and a 2-light casement with square leaded panes, plus a single-light window. The rear elevation features a rounded projecting stair turret. The left return has one first-floor and one ground-floor casement.

Inside, the hall retains a chamfered spine beam with run-out stops and an open fireplace with a chamfered granite lintel and jambs containing a brick-lined bread oven. The putative inner room has a probably 19th-century fireplace and a late 17th-century panelled door. The lower end fireplace may also be 19th century. A newel stair rises from the main heated room. The roof features various trusses, including 19th-century A-frame trusses over the inner room and two late 17th-century trusses with curved collars halved and pegged to the principals. Three 17th-century side-pegged jointed cruck trusses survive in the cider house range, one with a strengthening piece in the apex. Adjoining the lower end are two outbuildings, one of which has been converted to domestic use. A lower-roofed adjoining building is probably a former cartshed, originally open-fronted with granite monoliths, but now partly infilled with stone rubble.