Colesworthy Farmhouse

Colesworthy Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from the 16th or 17th century, with possible earlier origins, and features a lean-to addition on the north-east side. It is constructed of roughcast stone and cob, topped with a slated roof. The farmhouse has two large projecting chimneystacks with offsets on the north-west front, and a third stack located on the ridge of the cross-wing.

The main range of the building faces north-west and includes a through-passage with a hall and an inner room to the left. The cross-wing, which projects slightly at the front, appears to function almost as a separate house, containing two heated rooms at the north-west end, separated from a third room by the original through-passage. However, the passage and the third room seem to have been built separately. The farmhouse is two storeys high, and the north-west front has very few windows.

At the centre of this front is a two-storeyed gabled entrance-porch featuring a large, chamfered, round-headed stone doorway on the ground floor, with a 20th-century plastic window above. To the immediate left of the porch is the hall stack, and another stack is located to the right, in the centre of the gable wall of the cross-wing. The ground storey has two small windows, one at the left-hand end and another to the right of the porch. The windows on the south-west front of the cross-wing are mainly 20th-century plastic casements.

The door leading to the through-passage on this side has a ribbed design from the late 16th or 17th century. Although the interior was not inspected, the owner mentioned a stud-and-panel screen. A report from 1973 indicates that there was an ovolo-moulded screen to the left of the passage in the main range. The inner room was previously used as a larder or salting room and still has bacon racks in place. To the right of the passage, there is a doorway with a cranked head. The passage in the cross-wing had a screen, which may have been low, on the right-hand side, and a round-headed doorway at the rear. In the upper storey, there is a "very good original cupboard."