Farmhouse Used For Farm Storage Immediately West Of West Tower Of Church Of St Peter

A former farmhouse, now used for farm storage, likely dates to the late 17th century, with significant remodelling in the 19th century. The building is constructed of unrendered stone rubble and some cob, with slate and corrugated iron roofs, the latter featuring a lower ridge at the lower end. A stone rubble stack is located at the right gable end, and an axial stack with tapered caps and drips is present. The plan is unusual and partly obscured by 19th-century alterations. At the lower end of the hall is a considerably larger heated inner room to its right. The front wall of the hall has been built out, potentially as an addition, incorporating a stair turret to the left and a hall window projection to the right of a small central lobby, which provides direct access into the hall. The inner room was partitioned axially in the 19th century, creating a rear passage leading to a small winder staircase contained within a projection of the gable-end stack. The lower end has been extensively rebuilt in the 19th century, with part of the front wall removed. The upper part of this section is divided axially, forming a small dairy at the rear into which the substantial curving rear wall of the hall stack projects. A small front room was originally entered by a wide doorway, which was later blocked and replaced with a window. The lower (left) end wall of the front wall – but not the corresponding wall of the dairy – is also a later insertion, suggesting the dairy was originally enclosed, with the remainder of the lower end utilized for farm storage. The building is two storeys high, with a four-window range. Most of the windows are 19th-century 2-light casements, except at the right end, where a 19th-century 3-light casement is above a 17th-century 4-light ovolo mullion window. A 19th-century 3-light casement has been inserted into a blocked lower end doorway. Inside, the front room of the lower end has a single chamfered cross beam with straight cut stops. The hall has two cross ceiling beams and an upper end bressumer with diagonal cut stop chamfers. There is a straight cut stops to the cambered lintel of the hall fireplace, which has a bread oven in the rear wall. The inner room features two chamfered axial ceiling beams with hollow-step stops. The 19th-century joinery remains largely intact, including the two staircases; however, the hall staircase has lost some of its treads. The roof structure was wholly replaced in the 19th or early 20th centuries, except for a single principal at the lower end, with a short curved foot bedded in the front wall, supported at its apex by the axial stone partition of the dairy. Solid stone walls rise to the apex of the roof at each end of the hall.