Liverton Farm Cottage Liverton Farmhouse

Liverton Farmhouse and Liverton Farm Cottage is a farmhouse, with the right-hand end converted into a cottage. It dates from the 17th century, with 19th-century additions at the rear. The building has solid roughcast walls, likely made of cob or stone, and a slated roof that is hipped at the right-hand end. There are small rendered chimneystacks on each end wall, and a large granite chimneystack from the 17th century on the ridge, which has thatch weatherings and a cap formed by a projecting slate course just below the top.

The plan has been significantly re-modelled in the late 19th century but appears to be fundamentally a three-room layout with narrow rooms added at the rear. The building is two storeys high, with a single-storey lean-to at the rear on the right. The front has five windows featuring 19th-century wood casements with small panes. The house doorway is located in the second bay from the left, while the cottage doorway is in the second bay from the right.

There is a gateway leading into the rear courtyard from the lane on the left-hand side, which has a granite shaft as its left jamb. This granite is a single piece of stone, chamfered on all four sides with convex stops at the foot, and it may be part of a medieval cross, reportedly sourced from Ilsington churchyard.

The interior has a late Victorian character but features chamfered upper floor beams on the ground storey. The right-hand ground storey room of the house includes a tiled fireplace, said to be one of the earliest of its type produced by Candy Potteries at Heathfield. The roof space has not been inspected, but trusses with plain feet are visible in the upstairs rooms. In the lean-to addition at the rear, there is a large water trough made from a single piece of granite. The house likely has early features hidden beneath plaster.