Outbuilding About 20 Metres South East Of Rowbrook Farmhouse

This outbuilding, located approximately 20 metres southeast of Rowbrook Farmhouse, is a former longhouse dating to the 17th century or possibly earlier, with the addition of a lean-to. The structure is built of granite rubble with roughly-dressed massive quoins, and has a slate roof. There are no visible chimney stacks. The original plan included two small domestic rooms to the left of a cross-passage (lacking a rear doorway), and a shippon to the right. The shippon is separated from the cross-passage by a stone wall with large stones at its base which is not bonded to the outer walls and never contained a doorway. A rounded recess in the rear wall of the shippon may have held a staircase, and a blocked doorway nearby suggests a possible original through-passage absorbed into the shippon at a later date.

The two-storey front facade has a two-window arrangement for the house part. The windows are currently boarded up and lack frames or glazing. The window to the left of the cross-passage doorway has a chamfered granite lintel with run-out stops, though it is slightly mismatched to the opening. The lintel on the doorway to the left of the window is a better fit. A doorway in the cross-passage is sheltered by an old granite porch with a corrugated iron roof. The shippon’s doorway has a plain wood lintel. An added lean-to, later used as a stable, is positioned to the right. A small, hollow-moulded granite window with a central mullion, and holes for horizontal bars in the jambs, is found in the ground storey of the left-hand gable wall. A blocked slit window is located in the upper storey of the same wall, a notable feature for a main house wall. The rear of the building has been built up to ground-floor level, likely to allow conversion of the upper section into a storage loft, evidenced by several old loft doors and another slit window, potentially related to a former staircase. The right-hand gable wall of the shippon has three ground-storey ventilation slits.

Internally, a stone wall with a blocked doorway separates the former inner room from the hall. The hall features a chamfered upper-floor beam supported by inserted corbels, with plain joists, though the beam has rotted at the ends. A weak partition forms the left-hand side of the cross-passage, suggesting the front door originally opened directly into the hall. A drain runs the length of the shippon, and a line of stones along the rear wall indicates a former feeding trough. The building served as a farmhouse until the late 18th century and remained a dwelling well into the 20th century.