Underhill House With Barn And Pigsties Adjoining To West

This is a late 17th and early 18th century former farmhouse with an adjoining barn and pigsties to the west, with 19th-century additions and alterations. The house and barn are constructed of wet-dashed rubble on a plinth, while the pigsties are of unrendered snecked rubble with quoins. They have a graduated slate gable-end roof extending continuously over all the units, with rendered axial and external end stacks on the original house. The house and barn are two storeys high, with the pigsties under a lean-to roof at the west end. The plan likely started with a three-room layout, with a baffle entry to the north. An axial stack originally heated a kitchen/downhouse to the west and a living room to the east. A parlour was situated beyond the living room, and heated by an end stack, and was originally divided from the living room by a partition that has since been removed. A small external stair turret and pantry are situated to the north, adjoining the entry. A small barn west of the downhouse was converted to living accommodation in the 19th century, and a large barn extension, along with the pigsties, also date to the 19th century, with vehicular access to the north. The north elevation features only two small windows illuminating the stair/pantry turret (under a catslide roof), and an entry with a modern lean-to glazed porch. The barn has a tall, segmentally arched cart entrance. The south elevation has scattered windows; the original house has two 12-pane horned sash windows on the first floor and one 4-pane unhorned sash window. On the ground floor, there are two 12-pane horned sash windows either side of a part-glazed 19th-century planed door, which is now located in a 20th-century conservatory. The converted barn has one tall 4-pane horned sash window, and the 19th-century barn incorporates a reused 17th-century cavetto-moulded two-light wood-mullioned window. Inside the principal room are stopped and chamfered ceiling beams and joists (one with mortice holes for a partition). The end fireplace surround is pecked and margined with a moulded mantel-shelf, with a 19th-century marble fireplace (to the west room) featuring console brackets and an ornate cast-iron insert. A small, late 18th-century cast iron grate is located on the first floor. The roof has principals with a collar, ridge piece and side purlins; the main timbers are chamfered in the original house.