Vogwell Farmhouse

Vogwell Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates from the late 16th century to early 17th century, with possible earlier origins. It was altered in the 19th century. The building features granite rubble walls with quoins, rendered on the front southwest face, and has three chimney stacks. The left-hand gable stack has a brick shaft, while the axial and right gable stacks are made of granite rubble with drip-moulds; the axial stack has been built up in brick. The roof is covered with asbestos slate and is gabled at both ends.

The farmhouse has a three-room-and-cross or through-passage plan, with a possible rear door obscured by an outshut, and the rear half of the passage is blocked by a later staircase. The inner room may have originally been unheated, as it features a later chimney stack. The hall fireplace backs onto the passage. A 19th-century outshut has been added at the rear of the lower end and the passage.

The building is two storeys high and has a nearly regular four-window front on the southwest side, featuring late 19th-century to early 20th-century casements with two, three, and four lights, some of which have blocked or missing lights, but most retain glazing bars. There is a six-fielded panel door leading to the passage, located to the right of centre, which is enclosed in a 20th-century wood and brick gabled porch. The left gable end chimney projects with offsets. The rear has small irregular window openings, with a 20th-century casement inserted into the former inner room on the ground floor to the right, featuring a segmented brick arch.

The interior has not been fully inspected, but the hall contains a large open fireplace with a charred chamfered wooden lintel and plain monolithic granite jambs. There is a heavy cross beam that is roughly chamfered, though no stops are visible, along with plain joists and a slate slab floor. Vogwell is mentioned in a Saxon document found in the Exeter Cathedral archives. Despite the 19th-century modifications, the farmhouse retains much of its original plan and is relatively unmodernised since that time, suggesting that more early features may be concealed within.