Little Warmhill

Little Warmhill is a house, formerly a farmhouse, dating from the late 16th century or 17th century, with the left and right wings added in the 1980s. The basic structure may be late medieval. The building has rendered solid walls and a thatched roof that is hipped at each end. There is a large rendered stack, which heated the former hall, located just in front of the ridge and off-centre to the left, along with a small rendered stack on the ridge towards the right-hand end and a third stack in the rear wall, off-centre to the right.

Originally, the plan included at least two rooms, a hall and a kitchen, with a through passage. The hall has been completely demolished and rebuilt in the 1980s, while the right-hand room was raised from being an added lean-to at that time. The house has two storeys and a five-window front, with the third and fourth windows from the left being part of the pre-1980s section. The doorway, which features a 20th-century door and porch, is located in the left-hand bay of this section, and beside it on the left is a large oven projection. All windows are 20th-century, small-paned wood casements.

Inside, the hall fireplace is large with granite jambs and a 20th-century wood lintel, and there is an oven on the right-hand side. The rear wall of the chimney facing the through passage is made of large-scale granite rubble with a chamfered cornice at the top but lacks a plinth at the bottom. The fireplace in the rear wall of the former kitchen, now the sitting room, has splayed sides and an old oven with a shallow granite shelf in front; this fireplace also has a 20th-century lintel. The roof of the older part mostly features plain trusses with collars pegged to the faces of the principal rafters, and at the right-hand end, there are rafters from a former hip. However, the hall stack appears to be built onto a side-pegged jointed cruck truss, suggesting it may have been added to what was originally a medieval house. In the roof space, the truss shows possible traces of smoke-blackening.