Alston Farmhouse

Alston Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in the early 19th century, likely around 1811, with a possibly older rear section. It features solid roughcast walls and a hipped slated roof, with rendered chimneys at each end of the ridge on the front range and a prominent stone rubble chimney on the rear range. The house appears to be a four-square design with a central front entrance and a shallower rear range. It stands two storeys high and is three windows wide. The two outer windows are set in tall, shallow, round-headed recesses, which are themselves within square-headed recesses that rise to the eaves. The front door is a six-panelled design with the bottom panels flush and the top two panels now glazed, framed by a moulded architrave and a later Doric porch. The ground-storey windows are round-arched with eight-paned sashes, featuring interlacing Gothic glazing bars in the upper sashes. The upper storey has six-paned sashes, with a matching window on the right side wall. The interior has not been inspected, but a 1973 listing description notes features such as a moulded dado, six-paned doors, panelled shutters on the windows, shaped brackets on the cut string of the stairs with square balusters, and a marble mantle. The Devon Record Office holds a draft building agreement for this house, dated 1811, which was not completed.