Elworthy Farmhouse

Elworthy Farmhouse is a farmhouse that may have medieval origins, with significant enlargements in the 16th century and further alterations dated 1686. The building was reroofed in the 19th century. It features colour-washed random rubble on the right side and cob on the left, with three courses of brickwork below the eaves. The roofs are slate, and there are brick stacks on the gable end to the left, next to the cross passage, and on the gable end of the east wing. The layout of the house is not entirely clear, but it may have originally been an open hall house, which is now a two-cell structure with a cross passage. There is a two-cell addition in cob at the southwest end, which includes a stone stair turret, and the later east wing also has a stair projection. The open hall was ceiled around the time of the plasterwork in 1686.

The front of the farmhouse faces a foldyard and has two storeys with four bays. On the left, there are two four-light ovolo moulded mullioned casements, while on the right, there is a 20th-century two-light casement and a 19th-century two-light leaded iron casement with quadrant stays. The ground floor has two 20th-century windows flanking the entrance, with an early 19th-century leaded iron casement to the right and a gauze-covered opening to the left of the plank door. The entrance is a 20th-century plank door located between the first and second bays on the left, although the main entrance is now at the rear through the east wing.

Inside, there is a variety of chamfered beams with stops that indicate different building periods, particularly sophisticated in the centre room to the right of the cross passage. A plank and muntin screen separates the two end rooms, and there is a doorway with a four-centred arch head and a 16th-century door with decorative hinges. A similar arched doorway leads to the stair turret. In the end bedroom on the right, there is plasterwork overmantel featuring a symmetrical design of strawberry leaves, which is partially obscured by 20th-century paint, along with the initials MP dated 1686. Additionally, a projection at the rear shows that the exterior wall on the first floor is only lathe and studs. There are changes in floor levels on both the ground and first floors.