Addiscott

Addiscott is a farmhouse dating from the 16th century, with alterations made in the 17th century. It has been completely modernised within the last two years. The building features rendered granite rubble walls and a thatched roof with gable ends. There are rendered, likely brick, gable end stacks and a rendered stone axial stack with a drip course. The original layout was a three-room-and-through-passage plan, which included a hall and possibly a lower room that was open to the roof timbers with a central hearth. The inner room has always had a chamber above it. In the 17th century, floors were inserted into the hall and lower end, and a hall stack was added backing onto the passage. A rear wing at the higher end likely served as an outbuilding from the 18th century, with outshuts added at the rear, probably in the 19th century.

The farmhouse is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical four-window front featuring 20th-century three-light casements with glazing bars. There is a wide doorway to the passage located to the right of centre, which has a 20th-century part-glazed door behind a 20th-century gabled porch with a slate roof. The rear wall of the house has outshuts. The interior has been significantly altered, with few original features remaining. The hall fireplace is now blocked but is said to have had a massive cracked granite lintel. One original cross beam survives in the hall, featuring fillet and ovolo moulding, as well as a bar and straight cut stop, which has been cut off at the rear and repaired at the front. Three original roof trusses remain; two over the hall (one of which is at the higher end) are smoke blackened, while the truss at the higher end is a closed truss to the chamber over the inner room, retaining original plaster that is smoke blackened on the hall side only. Although the original purlins and collars are gone, the smoke blackened ridge remains. The front wall has been built up, raising the roof and adding new timbers on top of the old ones. The feet of these trusses are not visible, but the truss over the lower end of the passage features a side pegged jointed cruck.