Furlong

This is a house dating from circa 1840-50, with a rear block incorporating elements of a 16th-century house that was extensively renovated in the early 18th century. The main block is constructed of plastered granite stone rubble, with granite stacks incorporating plastered brick chimneyshafts and projecting cornices; the roof is slate-covered. The house has a double-depth plan, comprising a front room, a rear room, and a central entrance hall with a staircase. The front rooms are heated by end stacks, and the service rooms are located in integral outshots linked by a rear corridor. A two-room block is set back at a right angle, with an external stack serving the front room; it connects the main block to the remains of an earlier farmhouse, which runs parallel to the main block. The surviving part of the original farmhouse consists of the passage, hall, and inner room of a three-room-and-through-passage plan. The hall retains evidence of its 16th-century origins, while the rest was modernized in the early 18th century. The house is two stories throughout.

The front of the main block has a symmetrical facade of five windows, featuring 12-pane sashes (mostly horned), arranged around a central doorway. The doorway has part-glazed double doors and overlight, sheltered by a flat-roofed Doric porch with a moulded entablature. Stucco quoins are visible on each side of the front. The eaves are plain, resting on pairs of shaped brackets, and the roof is hipped at each end. Other sections of the house and the rear also have 12-pane sashes of various sizes, with the largest windows at the rear, illuminating the staircase. The side block includes a 19th-century six-panel door with overlight, panelled reveals, and a plain doorcase.

Inside the main block, much of the original 19th-century joinery and detail remains, including a geometric open string staircase with slender turned balusters, a mahogany handrail, and a curtain step. In the rear block, the hall features a late 16th-century granite ashlar fireplace with a relieving arch over the lintel. The crossbeam may be from the early or mid 17th century and has plain soffit-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. The rest of the house mostly dates to the early 18th century, although older structural features may be concealed behind plaster. The inner room, which served as a parlour, has a moulded box cornice with a dentil frieze. The chimney piece features an eared surround, and the panel above is flanked by fluted pilasters; a cupboard in the rear wall has similar pilasters and a fielded panel door. The rear staircase is likely from the early 18th century, but the balusters are enclosed. The hall chamber has a bolection chimneypiece, and most of the doors in this block are panelled with two fielded panels. The roof of this block also dates from the early 18th century, featuring A-frame trusses with pegged lap-jointed collars.