Yardworthy Farmhouse

Yardworthy Farmhouse is a farmhouse with adjoining stables, likely built in the 18th century and enlarged and refurbished in the mid-19th century. It is constructed of granite stone rubble with large dressed granite quoins, and the front is plastered. The building features granite stacks topped with 20th-century brick and has a slate roof, which was formerly thatch.

The farmhouse is L-shaped, with the main block facing south-south-east. The original house consists of a two-room section at the left (west) end, which had a right end stack for the larger room. These two rooms have since been combined. In the mid-19th century, the house was extended to the right (east), adding a new staircase and entrance hall against the back of the stack, along with a parlour beyond that also has an end stack. A straight join between the two sections is visible at the rear. During this time, a stable block was constructed, projecting forward at right angles from the left (west) end, suggesting it may have replaced an earlier structure.

The exterior features an irregular three-window front, with the right two-window section containing horned 12-pane sashes and the left one-window section featuring 20th-century casements with glazing bars. The main front doorway, slightly right of centre, has a 20th-century plank door and a segmental fanlight with a 19th-century radial pattern of glazing bars, made from a single piece of granite. There is a secondary door at the left end with a 19th-century plank door behind a 20th-century porch that has a monopitch roof of corrugated iron. The inner side of the stable block includes a central stable-type door flanked by granite buttresses, with a fixed pane window on each side and a row of pigeon holes above the right window. Both roofs are gable-ended. The rear of the main block indicates that the roof of the older section was raised when the house was extended. The interior features plain carpentry detail, but the roof was not inspected.