East Shallowford Farmhouse

East Shallowford Farmhouse is a farmhouse that was formerly a longhouse, dating from the 16th century or earlier. It has likely been extended at the right-hand end, with a rear wing added. The building features solid, roughcast walls, probably made of granite, and has an asbestos-slated, half-hipped roof. There is an old roughcast chimney with thatch weatherings on the ridge at the left-hand end of the old part of the house, a small rendered chimney towards the right-hand end of the ridge, and a large rendered chimney on the gable of the rear wing.

The layout consists of a through-passage with a hall and an inner room to the right, and a former shippon, now living accommodation, to the left. To the right of the inner room is a service room, possibly a dairy, and at the rear, leading out of the hall, is a room with a fireplace, possibly a parlour. The house is two storeys high, with the house part being three windows wide; the left-hand window, in front of the hall, projects slightly. The windows are 19th-century casements with glazing bars. There are two doorways to the left of the house part: one leads to the through-passage and the other presumably to the former shippon. These doorways are sheltered by a single wide porch with a pent roof, featuring an open front and stone side walls, with the right-hand wall having a built-in seat.

Inside, the hall has a chamfered upper-floor beam with bar-stops, although one end is somewhat obscured by the 16th-century chimneystack. There is a wide fireplace with granite jambs and a chamfered wool lintel that has run-out stops; the left end of the lintel is chamfered beyond the jamb. Above the lintel, there is a relieving arch, with the semi-circular space beneath filled with two specially-cut pieces of granite. The back of the fireplace facing the passage is made of granite ashlar, but it lacks the cornice and plinth typically found on Dartmoor. There is a good plank door at the rear of the passage, which has been re-faced on the outside. A rounded stair turret with stone steps is located at the rear of the hall. The fireplace in the rear wing has a plain granite lintel. The upper storey has not been inspected. According to the owner, a previous owner mentioned that cows used to be kept in the lower end of the house.