Long Haddon

The property at Long Haddon is a farmhouse, now a dwelling, dating to the late medieval period. It originally comprised an open hall house, which was ceiled in the late 16th century. A wing was likely added in the early 17th century, with a possible extension to the north end. The house was restored in the late 20th century.

The construction is of random rubble local stone, with dressed stonework forming the upper courses. It features quoins and a thatched roof, hipped to the left and coped with verges to the right. Rebuilt brick stacks are present, one to the right of the through passage and another at the left gable end, originally an external feature. The building is in an L-plan configuration.

The original open hall was ceiled to create a three-cell layout with a cross passage, and a dairy wing was added. The building is approximately one and a half storeys high featuring an irregular eaves line and a chamfered wallplate. A first-floor four-light octagonal wooden mullioned window is on the left side; a 20th-century two-light window is above the entrance, set below the eaves. To the right are three- and four-light casements rising through the eaves. On the ground floor, a four-light ovolo-moulded mullioned window with 20th-century wooden facing is on the left. A three-light window is below a wooden lintel with chamfered stone jambs to the right of the entrance, followed by a four-light window with a Ham stone surround and a hoodmould. The entrance features a 20th-century six-panel door with side-lights, set within a flat-roofed wooden porch with turned newel columns on stone plinths and a four-panel soffit. A reset lancet window is set into the left gable return. A 20th-century two-light reconstituted stone window is set into the ground floor of the left gable end. A wing wall has been built out in line with the external stack. The wing is one and a half storeys high with two bays and three-light octagonal wooden casement dormers.

The interior is not documented, but is reported to contain three pairs of smoke-blackened jointed cruck trusses in the main block and one clean pair in the wing. The wing is otherwise featureless, other than a chamfered beam with step and runout stops. A former kitchen is at the south gable end with sides and back of the hearth rebuilt in brick. It includes a large brick-lined oven on the west side and a small oven with a cast-iron grate below, alongside a large late 19th-century under-fire oven by Bonfield of Misterton. A stud and panel screen is exposed on the kitchen side of the cross passage. A rebuilt cross passage fireplace is present, along with a former masonry wall between the hall and inner room, rebuilt in brick. The inner room has a fine north gable end fireplace made of Ham stone, featuring a depressed 4-centred arch lintel with ovolo and ogee moulding and incised spandrels. A winder stair formerly stood to the right. It has been proposed that the northern part of the house was originally cob, rebuilt in rubble when new windows were inserted in the 17th century.