Combe Farmhouse

Combe Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1629, which has been extended over time. The kitchen end was largely rebuilt and reroofed in the mid-19th century. The building features roughcast and colourwashed rubble on the kitchen end, with slate roofs. The lower section has an independently roofed, hipped clay-tiled, recessed kitchen wing, and a rendered stack on the left gable end. There is a large lateral stack with a slate-roofed bread oven projection to the right of the entrance.

The farmhouse has a plan consisting of three cells and a cross passage, with a dairy attached to a stair turret on the south front and a southwest addition. The north front is two storeys high and has two bays. The first floor features a central section of wall that has been raised to include two 2-light leaded casements. In the lower roofed block to the right, there are two casements set below the eaves to the left of the lateral stack. The ground floor has a 4-light casement on the left, a small glazed opening in the end bay on the right, and a half-glazed plank door in the second bay to the right.

On the rear elevation, the southeast corner of the stair turret has a first-floor 2-light ovolo moulded window, and the ground floor has a tiny wooden lancet that is blocked internally. Inside, the east gable end features a fireplace with plasterwork overmantel that includes a cartouche dated 1629, with the initials GB:AB:IB:DB below, flanked by strap work, figures, and drops of fruit, although the upper portion is missing. The central room has a lateral beam that is steeply chamfered with step and run-out stops, a modern grate, and a peaked head door frame leading to the winder stair with a newel post. There is a bedroom opening off the stair above the dairy, and the principal rafter roof is visible. The kitchen end, which has a similar roof, appears to have been rebuilt.