Sweaton Farmhouse, Including Garden Walls And Gate Piers

Sweaton Farmhouse, which includes garden walls and gate piers, is a farmhouse dating from the 16th or 17th century, with later additions. The right-hand end was rebuilt in the 18th or early 19th century. It is constructed of granite rubble, with thatched roofs, except for an added slated range that projects from the left-hand end of the front wall. A large granite ashlar chimneystack is located on the left-hand gable, with two smaller similar stacks at either end of the rebuilt right-hand section. The building has a 3-room and through-passage plan, featuring a hall stack that backs onto the passage, while the lower end has been rebuilt as a parlour. The inner room is very large and may have served as a kitchen at one time.

The farmhouse is two storeys high, with single-storey additions at the front and rear, and it has four windows across the front. The older part of the house has two windows with 3-light 19th-century wood casements, each having three panes per light. The rebuilt lower end features 8-paned sash windows, and there is a 20th-century door in the left-hand bay, which has an older thatched hood supported by shaped wood brackets. To the left of the door, there is an added stone lean-to. At right angles to the left-hand end of the older part of the house is a narrow, two-storeyed service wing.

In front of the rebuilt parlour end, there is a low granite rubble garden wall with two slender granite gate piers topped with ball finials. The interior has few notable features; the hall fireplace was rebuilt in the 20th century, while the large fireplace in the inner room has a plain granite lintel. The upper-floor joists in this room run from the front to the back wall, with those at the hall end being chamfered. At the rear of the hall, there is a stair turret with a winding granite staircase. The roof structure includes two trusses with principal rafters that have short curved feet. The farmyard contains several well-preserved buildings of good quality, including a barn, pigsty, and shippon, which are separately listed.