Milking Parlour Approximately 35 Metres South-West Of Yardworhty Farmhouse

A milking parlour and cart store, dating from the 16th or 17th century, originally part of a Dartmoor longhouse. The building is situated approximately 35 metres south-west of Yardworthy Farmhouse. It is constructed of roughly coursed granite stone rubble with large dressed quoins and some other large blocks, and originally had a thatched roof, now replaced with corrugated iron. The original plan comprised three rooms and a through-passage, built down a hillslope, with the western end terraced into the slope. The hall and inner room have been combined to create a cart store, featuring a large, disused granite stack against the former passage wall. The rear passage door has been blocked, and the passage and shippon have been combined to form the milking parlour, now open to the roof. Parts of the building were likely two storeys high in the 17th century.

The south front has one remaining slit window in the shippon near the right end. A late 19th-century door is centrally placed in the front passage doorway. To the right of the doorway, the original cow door is blocked and contains a small slit window. To the left of the doorway is a blocked hall window. The roof is hipped to the left and three-quarter-hipped to the right. The right end wall features a shippon drain hole, dung hatch, hayloft loading hatch, and a 20th-century window. A large doorway has been created in the rear wall of the hall and inner room to form the cart store opening.

Internally, the division between the hall and inner room has been removed, though remnants of a stone rubble partition wall extending up to first-floor level remain on the front wall. The chimneybreast and lintel of the large granite ashlar hall fireplace have been demolished, as has the lower passage screen. The milking parlour fittings are 20th-century, although the original shippon drain appears to have been reused. The only surviving original carpentry detail is the unfinished crossbeams in the shippon, which once supported the hayloft. The roof is constructed of A-frame trusses, with the earliest examples dating to the 18th century, featuring pegged lap-jointed collars.