South Cheriton Farmhouse

South Cheriton Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid 17th century, with additions from the mid and late 19th century and alterations from the late 20th century. It is constructed from rendered coursed rubble stone, with some additions in uncoursed rubble. The building has a gable-ended slate roof that is covered in bitumen.

The farmhouse likely has a two-room plan that runs approximately east-west and faces north, featuring slate-hung axial stacks to the left of each room. There is a 19th-century wing that extends at right angles to the rear of the left-hand end. Alternatively, it may have originally been a three-room and cross-passage plan, consisting of a hall with an axial stack that backed onto a former cross passage (which has since been demolished), with an inner room to the right (west) and a service end to the left (east), which has a later porch at the front (north). The building is two storeys tall.

The main front faces north and is asymmetrical with five windows. It features 19th-century two-light wooden casements, with three-light wooden casements on the left-hand addition. There is a central late 20th-century flat-roofed semi-dormer with a two-light wooden casement and pairs of pigeon nesting holes below the eaves. The left-hand 19th-century addition also has two flat-roofed semi-dormers. The central entrance is a late 20th-century five-panelled door set under a segmental head with incised rendered voussoirs, leading to a partly-rendered gabled stone porch with a pointed-arched entrance. There is likely a 19th-century one-storey wing that projects at right angles to the right of the porch, which was formerly linked to farm buildings but has been converted for domestic use in the late 20th century.

At the rear, there is a possible former cross-passage entrance with a late 20th-century glazed door. A late 19th-century or 20th-century wing projects at right angles to the right, featuring an external lateral stone stack.

Inside, the right-hand ground floor room has three 17th-century chamfered cross beams with scroll stops and an open fireplace. The central ground-floor room has been altered in the late 20th century, with new joists, a rebuilt open fireplace, and stripped walls. The roof trusses are probably from the 17th century, but the roof space has not been inspected. The late 20th-century alterations have diminished some of the evidence regarding the development of the farmhouse's plan.