Langhill

This is a house, originally a farmhouse, dating back to the early to mid-17th century. A 19th-century extension was added, and the interior was modernised in the early 20th century. The house is constructed of rendered granite rubble with granite mullion windows. Axial stacks are visible to the left of the centre and to the right gable end, both featuring drip-courses. The roof is of gabled slate with coping stones to the left gable. The original layout comprised three rooms and a through-passage, with a hall fireplace in an unusual internal position, an unheated inner room (likely extended later), and a lower room with a gable end fireplace. A two-storey porch, original to the front of the passage, features a 17th-century two-light granite mullion window with a hoodmould, and a 17th-century three-light granite mullion window on either side at both ground and first floor levels, also with hoodmoulds. The mullions are hollow-chamfered, and some lintels have been replaced; the hoodmould above the right-hand ground floor window bears an “X” motif on its labels. The windows have square leaded panes, some of which are original. Dormer windows with two-light leaded casements were added on the second floor of the attic, likely in the early 20th century. A two-story lean-to addition is located at the rear of the inner room. The porch, with a flat roof supported by two granite Doric columns reputedly brought from Moretonhampstead Market Hall in the early 20th century, has stone seats and a front door of nine panels, the upper six being moulded, probably dating from the early to mid-19th century. The rear facade was altered in the 20th century. Internally, the house was extensively modernised in the early 20th century, and much of the joinery dates from this period, including panelling in the ground floor rooms and the staircase. However, the early 19th-century staircase remains from the first floor upwards. The hall retains its 17th-century fireplace, which features a chamfered wooden lintel with run-out stops, splayed dressed granite jambs chamfered at the edges, a shallow shelf part way up the back, and an arched granite oven opening on the right-hand side. This was evidently a house of good quality, notable for the survival of its original facade in a virtually unaltered condition.