Cow house, calf house and walled yard, 15m south-west of Selworthy Farmhouse

Cow house, later adapted to include stables; C18 date with some late-C19 alterations. Attached is a calf house of the late C19/early C20.

MATERIALS It is constructed of random sandstone rubble, with some cob, under a pitched, probably formerly hipped, double roman tiled roof which overhangs the gable ends. The calf house is also built of sandstone rubble and some brick, with a monopitched roof of double roman tiles.

PLAN A rectangular building of four bays with a later calf pen structure built against the west gable wall. The building is formed of three elements: cow house and stables to the ground floor and a hayloft over the cow house. The calf house is built against the west gabled end of the cow house and extends northwards slightly.

EXTERIOR It is a one-and-a-half storey building with two doorways set within altered openings to the entrance front (south). There is a wide, ledge and braced plank door to the right and a full-height opening to the left of centre which has a pair of timber plank doors with inserted lights and boarded infill above the doors. To the left end is a two-light window in a splayed opening and there is a small fixed light below the eaves. The east gable wall has a timber window with wooden ventilation slats to the lower half and there are two infilled openings in the north side. The calf house attached to the west has a small, boarded opening set high in the south elevation, and its west elevation comprises wooden vertical planks and two ledged and braced doors. There are no openings in the north wall.

INTERIOR The ground floor is bisected by a stone partition wall which extends up above the wall plate as a boarded wooden screen that contains a plank door. The right-hand half is open to the roof, has a diamond-patterned brick floor and wooden stall divisions. The other half has cement render to the lower part of the walls, a cement floor and is devoid of fittings. The axial beams and joists of the first floor are roughly-shaped and support wide floorboards. The roof has pegged collared principal trusses and there are single rows of purlins which, except for the original north purlin in the east half of the building, are later replacements; the ridge piece is also of later date. The calf house is divided into two pens by a timber partition and each pen has a wooden hayrack.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES Adjacent to the calf house is a small yard with a cobbled floor surface. It is bounded to the north and south by stone rubble walls with cock and hen capping; each contains a narrow gateway.