Pixies Hall

Pixies Hall is a small country house built in 1928 by Fred Harild of Totnes, who trained under Sir Edwin Lutyens. The house's drawings were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1929. It is constructed from Devonian limestone rubble and features a thatched hipped roof with deep eaves, eyebrow dormers, and boarded soffits. The building has large end chimney stacks with set-offs and rendered shafts, and the chimney breast on the north end has a window at ground level. There is one axial ridge stack that is off-centre.

Designed in a vernacular revival style, the house has a slightly curved, almost butterfly plan with symmetrical elevations and stands two storeys tall. The entrance front is located on the opposite side, featuring a central round arch entrance porch with a recessed doorway and a wide eyebrow dormer above. Flanking this are two short hipped-roof wings, with their thatched roofs sloping down to a lower level; the right-hand wing is supported by a square pier over a small verandah.

The garden front, which is on the concave side, has wide eyebrows at the centre above a glazed door with sidelights and a stone hood mould. This is flanked by straight-headed lancets and stone ovolo-moulded cross mullion transom windows, with a 5-light window on the left and a 3-light window on the right. All windows are casements with leaded panes in iron frames, and there is slate weathering to the lintels. The doors are made of nail-studded oak.

Inside, the house retains much of its original character, featuring an ovolo moulded ceiling and joists with butt-staps. The original nail-studded oak plank doors have cover moulds. The stone newel staircase has a wooden balustrade at the top and a tapered newel post that rises to a lamp standard. The hall floor is tiled with stone, and the dining room has a stone Tudor-arch chimneypiece. In the drawing room, there is a large open fireplace with a plain wooden chimneypiece featuring a segmental arch and a mantel shelf.