Stone Farmhouse

This is a farmhouse, originally a Dartmoor longhouse, dating to the early or mid 16th century, with later 16th and 17th century alterations and a renovation around 1970. It is constructed of granite stone rubble, incorporating sections of massive granite ashlar, with the parlour block possibly built of cob. The building's stacks are of granite, one retaining its original granite ashlar chimney shaft, while the others are topped with 20th-century brick. The roof is thatched, with slate covering the rear shippon and rear wing.

The house has a T-shaped plan, built down the hillslope. It originally comprised three rooms and a through-passage. The inner room is located at the northeastern end, with a gable-end stack, while the hall has a large axial stack backing onto the passage. The shippon, at the southwestern end, was converted around 1970 to a garage and bedroom. A rear block projects at a right angle to the rear of the hall and passage, with a stack backing onto, and blocking, the passage rear doorway. A small kitchen, originally likely a dairy, occupies the end of the rear block. The hall remains open to the roof, reportedly blackened by smoke from the original open hearth fire. The inner room was probably floored in the later 16th century, and the hall fireplace was inserted in the late 16th century. A parlour wing was added in the mid 17th century, after which the hall was used as a kitchen. A 20th-century extension is located at the northeastern end of the inner room. Only the inner room and parlour wing are two stories in height.

The front of the main house features a two-window arrangement of 19th-century casements with leaded-glass panes. A 20th-century door, behind a flat-roofed porch, is centrally positioned in the passage front. A secondary doorway to the inner room has a 20th-century door and a contemporary thatched porch. The roofs of the main house and wing are gable-ended. A 20th-century garage doorway has been inserted into the shippon, and the remaining windows are 20th-century replacements without glazing bars. The shippon retains one original slit window, and a blocked drain hole is visible in the end wall.

Internally, the hall’s roof structure shows the bases of true cruck trusses, though the roofspace is inaccessible due to a likely 17th-century plaster ceiling. The hall contains a large granite ashlar fireplace with a plain surround and a 20th-century inserted oven. A probably 18th-century two-panel door is set within a probably 17th-century oak doorframe to the inner room. The inner room has a plain-chamfered axial beam and a blocked fireplace with a 20th-century grate. The parlour wing fireplace is constructed of granite ashlar with a soffit-chamfered and scroll-stopped oak lintel and has an inserted 19th-century oven. The mid 17th-century roof is supported by three A-frame trusses, lap-jointed onto posts set in the side walls. This is a rare example of a late medieval farmhouse with the hall still open to the roof.