South Hill Farmhouse

South Hill Farmhouse is a late 17th and early 18th century granite stone rubble house with dressed granite quoins, granite stacks (one with a granite chimney shaft, the other plastered), and a thatched roof. The original four-room layout is arranged around a central through-passage, which now incorporates a 20th century staircase. The room to the left of the passage has an axial stack backing onto the passage and was enlarged in the 20th century by creating an opening into a smaller, unheated room, originally likely a dairy. Between the rooms to the right of the passage, there is a stack serving back-to-back fireplaces. The end room has a large kitchen fireplace, with no doorway to the rest of the house until approximately 1960. A kitchen extension projects to the rear, along with a two-storey porch. A former barn, attached to the front left (west) corner and projecting at a right angle, was converted to domestic use in the early 20th century and given a rear lateral stack at that time. The main house is two storeys high, while the barn is single-storey. The exterior presents an irregular five-window facade with a mix of 19th century casements with glazing bars, and 20th century granite windows with chamfered mullions, designed to imitate 17th century style. These modern windows contain plate glass, except for a small window on the right end, which has tiny diamond panes of leaded glass, and a small single light to the left of the doorway, which contains coloured leaded glass. A late 19th century gabled porch with shaped bargeboards shelters the central front doorway. The roof is hipped to the left and half-hipped to the right, extending to the rear of the kitchen. The rear porch has a gabled roof. The former barn’s central front doorway now contains a part-glazed door with side lights and overlight, all with a lattice pattern of glazing bars. The barn’s roof is half-hipped at each end. Inside, there are plain granite fireplaces and stop-chamfered crossbeams. The joinery is mostly 19th and 20th century. The original roof structure consists of A-frame trusses with pegged lap-jointed collars.