Yellands Farmhouse Including Barn Adjoining To The South

Yellands Farmhouse, with an adjoining barn to the south, is probably of 17th-century origin, with modernization occurring in the mid to late 19th century. The house is constructed of granite rubble, with the barn’s exterior exposed and the house’s walls plastered, and topped with cob. The house has granite rubble stacks, one featuring a probable 17th-century granite ashlar chimney shaft and the other a 19th-century brick chimney shaft. The house’s roof is slate, while the barn and porch have corrugated iron roofs, likely both formerly thatched.

The original plan was for a three-room-and-through-passage house, built down a slope, facing east, with the inner room situated at the uphill, or northern, end. This room has a projecting end stack. The rear of the inner room is terraced into the hillside, and a narrow dairy was created in the 18th century by partitioning off a section at the rear. The hall has an upper end axial stack, and a stone newel stair rises alongside it towards the rear. The passage was rearranged in the 19th century and partially blocked off. The barn was built concurrently with the farmhouse but was extended slightly in the 19th century.

The farmhouse is two storeys high. The front of the house has an irregular four-window facade featuring late 19th and 20th-century casement windows with glazing bars. A probable 19th-century plank door is set behind a rubble-walled porch with a corrugated iron monopitch roof. The barn features a secondary pigsty centrally, paired 19th-century double doors leading to the threshing floor to the right, and a smaller door on the rear wall. To the left of the pigsty is a plank door, with a hayloft loading hatch directly above it on the barn extension. The roof is gable-ended to the right and hipped to the left, stepping down from the house to the barn. It is believed that the walls of the house were raised with cob when the roof was changed from thatch to slate.

The interior largely reflects 19th-century modernization, although the hall retains 17th-century features, including a large granite fireplace with a chamfered surround and a massive slab of granite lintel. The steep stone newel stair features granite steps and rises over the bread oven. The crossbeam in the hall is roughly stop-chamfered, with run-out stops. The inner room lacks exposed carpentry, and its fireplace is blocked. The dairy door is from the 18th century, with two fielded panels. The roof is inaccessible, but is believed to date from the 19th century. The barn roof is also 19th century. This is a notable small farmhouse, largely unchanged since the mid to late 19th century.