South (Or Lower) Hele Including Range Of Farm Buildings Adjoining North

South (or Lower) Hele is a farmhouse and farm buildings dating from the 16th or 17th century, with later alterations. The structure is made of rendered stone with granite dressings and features a slate hipped roof. It has two storeys and a three-window range, with 19th and 20th-century casements in enlarged openings. Two of the ground floor windows retain original lintels from what were once stone mullion windows. There is a 20th-century gabled porch at the center with a panelled and glazed door, and a stone chimneystack at the higher end. A wing at the rear of the higher end has a half-hipped roof, forming an L-shaped plan, and there are outshuts and a chimneystack on the rear wall. The byre at the lower end includes some stone mullion windows with hoodmoulds, which may have been altered. Inside the north wing, there is a chamfered ceiling beam with pyramid stops, possibly reused. The adjoining range of farm buildings at the rear, built around three sides of a farmyard with the house on the south side, dates from the 18th century. These buildings are constructed of granite with corrugated iron roofs and include barns and cattle sheds. A segmental arched cartway runs through the east range. Hele was the seat of the Hele family, an important South Devon family and significant landowners in the 16th and 17th centuries.