North Furzehill Farmhouse With Walls And Pinnacles To Entrance

This is a late 16th-century farmhouse, with subsequent modifications. It is built of rubble, with painted front and gable elevations and a tile roof. The original design was a three-room cross-passage plan, with a heated outer room on either side of the central passage; the upper end of the house, to the right of the passage, is elevated above the lower end. A small rear wing, initially one storey high, was raised to two storeys in the 20th century. A garage was added in 1993-4.

The farmhouse is two storeys high with a four-window front. The windows are largely 18th or 19th-century casements with four or six panes, set beneath wooden lintels. The first floor has a small two-light window, followed by a break in the wall, then three further two-light windows – the three right-hand windows are at a higher level. The ground floor has a three-light window with a rough stone dripstone, recessed into the wall, followed by a 20th-century two-light window and a further 19th-century window framing the doorway, which has a 20th-century door. Each gable end has a stack; the gable on the right has a stepped stone stack, and the left gable has a similar stack with a brick upper portion. The eaves slope down to the left, following the site's gradient and forming a deeper soffit over the recessed wall. The right gable has a small single light window, and the rear elevation has a 20th-century glazed door to the upper room and a two-light window beyond. The roof sweeps down to the right of centre, joining the later gabled wing.

The interior has been significantly altered, particularly on the ground floor, but several historic features remain. The upper room contains a large fireplace with a late 16th-century bressumer beam featuring ovolo-moulded stops. The first-floor room above retains a crude pegged A-frame roof with two purlins and an angled ridge purlin. The lower room also features a fireplace with a deep bressumer beam and a cloam oven. The upper level has trusses with curved feet (characteristic of an early date) and pegged collars, with roughly scarfed purlins; there were originally pegged rafters. There is an early framed partition above and below the collar level.

Flanking the main entrance are two low walls, terminating in the remains of square stone pinnacles with gabled faces. These are believed to have been salvaged from the former chapel at South Furzehill Farmhouse.