Youlditch Farmhouse

Youlditch Farmhouse is a house that was originally a longhouse, dating from around the mid-17th century and altered in the later 20th century. It features granite rubble walls and an asbestos slate roof, which is gabled to the right and hipped to the left, with a single axial rubble stack.

The layout includes a small longhouse with a shippon (a barn for livestock) on the left side, a through-passage at the right end, and a small hall and inner room beyond. The hall stack is positioned against the passage, and the inner room is unheated. The shippon was likely extended in the 19th century and converted for domestic use in the later 20th century.

The exterior has two storeys and an asymmetrical front with two windows, where the house part is on the right and the shippon on the left. It features 20th-century three-light casements with glazing bars. The right end of the house is recessed and has a small single-light 20th-century window on the ground floor. There is a stone drip-mould above the left-hand ground floor window, and a 20th-century porch with a part-glazed door in front of the passage doorway, which is located under the lower roof of the shippon. A 19th-century lean-to is present in front of the long shippon. At the first floor of the right gable end, there is a single granite-framed light from the 17th century. The house is built into the hillside at this end.

Inside, the hall features a granite-framed fireplace with an unchamfered lintel and roughly chamfered jambs, along with a stone oven on the right side. The axial beams are fairly insubstantial and closely spaced, chamfered with traces of straight-cut stops, and the floor is made of slate slabs. There is a solid wall separating the hall from the inner room. This farmhouse is an example of a later longhouse that still follows the traditional plan but is relatively small in scale.