Stoodley

This is a house, formerly a farmhouse, dating to around the late 15th or early 16th century, with a 19th-century extension to the south-west. The house is built of roughcast stone rubble and cob, with a thatched roof to the original section and a higher slate roof to the 19th-century addition. A rendered stack with set-offs is present. It likely originally had a 3-room and through passage plan, but has been much altered, with the south-west end entirely rebuilt or added in the 19th century. A north-east gable end stack includes an oven. The house has two storeys and a 4-window front. There is a C20 casement with leaded panes, a small half dormer window on the first floor, and a porch to the left of centre. An outbuilding, originally projecting at right angles to the left, is now integrated into the house.

Inside, the hall retains one cross beam and one half beam with an unstopped chamfer and large square joints. A chamfered hall fireplace beam features ogee steps and ovens, while a chamfered beam is set into the end wall beside the stack. The lower, south-west section has three square section cross beams. On the first floor, a blocked fireplace with a timber lintel is visible in the north-east end wall. A jointed cruck truss is visible in a first-floor room at the north-east end. The roof at the north-east end is blackened by smoke for two bays, including the thatch. It features jointed cruck trusses with threaded purlins and morticed apices and collars. The lower section of the roof has been raised, with some old trusses reused; these have morticed apices and mortices for collars and threaded purlins, which are now missing. It is unclear whether the inside of the north-east gable end is smoke-blackened due to the inserted stack. The original plan of the house is uncertain, but it was open to the roof at the north-east end; it's unclear whether this served as a hall with a missing section, or a simpler 2-bay hall, or whether the lower end of the house was originally located at that point and has been demolished.