St Benedict's Farmhouse

St. Benedict's Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse dating from the 16th century and later. It is built from local lias stone that is cut and squared, with Ham stone dressings, and features a thatched roof between stepped coped gables. The building has brick end and intermediate chimney stacks. It is two storeys high with an attic and consists of four bays, with the two eastern bays being of later construction. The windows include casement types with small panes that are unaligned in the first two bays, and hollow chamfer mullioned windows with rectangular leaded panes, iron opening lights, and internal vertical iron bars under labels in the lower bays three and four. Above these are ovolo mould timber framed windows of three lights, also leaded with iron opening lights. There is a small leaded attic light in the west gable, which is rendered, while the east gable appears to have been rebuilt in the late 20th century. The entrance is located at the rear. Although the interior has not been seen, it is reported to contain a wide stone fireplace with a cambered arched timber lintel, a spiral stone staircase, hollow chamfered beams with deep steps and curved runouts, and 17th-century roof trusses that reuse some earlier stoke-blackened timbers.