Horseyeatt Farmhouse

Farmhouse. It likely originated in the 16th century, with remodelling in the 17th century, and later additions from the 19th and 20th centuries. The walls are granite rubble, partly rendered, with slate hanging on the left-hand side of the house. It has a gabled slate roof. Two rubble stacks, one with dripcourses and a brick shaft, are positioned axially and at the right gable end.

Initially, the house comprised two rooms, with a larger room to the left, both heated by end stacks. A newel staircase projects from the rear wall of the left-hand room; a doorway on the front wall is likely original. The layout suggests a 17th-century date, but the absence of a cross passage indicates that the building may have lost its original lower end, possibly a shippon. The current doorway to the main room may have been moved and originally opened onto a passage to the left of that room, meaning the surviving original section represents the original hall and inner room. A largely rebuilt lower end in the 20th century replaces a post-dating lean-to shippon. 19th-century outshuts have been added to the rear of the higher end.

The exterior has an asymmetrical six-window front, with the left-hand section rebuilt in the 20th century. All windows are 20th-century 2-light casements, except for a 3-light window to the right of center, which illuminates the larger original room. First-floor windows on the left-hand section are in half-dormers, and ground-floor windows have dripmoulds. An original chamfered granite doorway with a pointed four-centred head is located to the right of center, and may have been re-sited. A 20th-century stable-type door sits at the right end of the 20th-century section.

Inside, the main room has a large granite-framed fireplace with a roughly chamfered lintel, and a stone oven on the left-hand side. A wooden newel staircase, with a late 16th or early 17th century square-headed chamfered wooden doorframe, is at the rear of the room. One original roof truss remains, containing re-used principals with mortices for threaded purlins.