Zempson Farmhouse Including Shippon Adjoining West

Zempson Farmhouse, which includes an adjoining shippon to the west, is a farmhouse that dates from around the 17th century or earlier, with remodels and extensions made in the 18th and 19th centuries. The building is constructed of stone rubble and has a colour-washed rendered front. It features a bitumenised slurried slate roof with gabled ends, and some early crested ridge tiles located to the left of centre over what was once a lower end. There is a stone rubble chimney stack.

The farmhouse likely started as a three-room plan with a through passage, which later included a hall stack on the rear wall and a slightly projecting stair turret at the back of the lower end. The inner room has been replaced by a cross wing from the 19th century, and there is an 18th-century shippon at a right angle at the lower end. The building is two storeys tall and has a long five-window range. The first floor features late 18th-century or early 19th-century light casements with leaded panes, while the right-hand side has two-light casements. The ground floor has 20th-century casements.

To the right of centre, there is a doorway in a two-storey projection, which has a 20th-century gabled porch. The lateral stack and rectangular stair turret are located on the rear wall, along with a blocked doorway that may have led to the original through passage. At the higher end of the front, there is a cross wing with late 19th-century casements. Projecting at a right angle to the left is the lower end, which contains the 18th-century shippon, built of stone rubble with granite quoins and a bitumenised slate gabled-ended roof. External stone stairs on the west side lead up to the loft. The interior has not been inspected.