Yeo Old Farmhouse

Yeo Old Farmhouse is an early 17th-century farmhouse, dated 1610, now unoccupied and used as a shippon. It is constructed of part-rendered stone rubble walls with a gable ended slate roof, and has a rubble stack at the left gable end. Originally, the house had an L-shaped plan with two rooms forming the front range, likely with a central passage leading to a stair turret at the rear. A single-room wing, probably a service room and unheated on the ground floor, is situated to the right of the stair projection. Both principal front rooms were originally heated by gable end fireplaces, as were the three first-floor rooms. The house was probably abandoned in the later 19th or early 20th century, and the front range rooms were combined into one room for use as a shippon, with a storage space above.

The exterior is two storeys and features a symmetrical three-window front with a central gabled two-storey porch and small gables above the first-floor windows. All windows are original, chamfered granite mullion windows: 3-light on the first floor and 4-light on the ground floor. The porch has a 4-centred granite arched doorway with a broad chamfer and square hoodmould. Carved into the spandrels of the doorway is the date 1610 and the initials I.W.T. There is a 4-centred arched granite inner doorway to the porch. Above the outer doorway is a small, granite-framed recess, now empty. The wing at the rear has been partially reduced in height and retains its granite mullion windows. The stair turret, situated in the angle of the wing's inner face, has a roofline parallel to the front range and a 2-light granite mullion window.

Internally, original fireplaces with chamfered granite jambs and lintels survive on each floor, one first-floor fireplace having a wooden lintel. The original staircase has been removed. One original roof truss remains, showing curved feet, a morticed cranked collar, and threaded purlins. The building is notable for being an early example of a completely symmetrical facade on a small, early 17th-century gentry house, a relatively uncommon feature in Devon. The facade is remarkably well-preserved, and the main fabric of the house remains intact despite the removal of some internal features and the absence of significant additions.