Chitcombe Farmhouse

Chitcombe Farmhouse is a longhouse that has been converted into a farmhouse. It dates back to the 16th century, although the lower end has been rebuilt. The building was extended with a store at the upper end and underwent reroofing and refenestration in the 19th century. The exterior is rendered over rubble, with slate roofs that extend to the left over a former curing chamber and an addition to the west. The central section features roughcast and a rebuilt brick chimney, while the lower east end has an independently roofed section that extends as a catslide over the dairy. A 20th-century roughcast stack rises from the centre of the eaves.

The farmhouse faces south and is situated on a steeply sloping site that descends to the east. It likely has a two-cell plan typical of longhouses, with an extension to the west for the store and a rebuilt east end that includes a single cell accessed through a passage, with a dairy beyond. The building has two storeys and is composed of one and two bays, featuring late 19th-century and early 20th-century casement windows. The left end bay has a loft over the store, and there is a square-headed doorway. The windows open to the wall of the former curing chamber, with a three-light window on the first floor and a similar window below to the left of the door, along with a two-light window beyond. The lower block has a two-light window on the first floor, nesting boxes at the end, and one window to the right and two to the left of a plank door on the ground floor.

Inside, the kitchen features chamfered beams with scroll stops, and there is a chamfered lintel above the fireplace with remnants of the curing chamber to the left. A stair has been inserted against the rear wall, and another stair projects from the rear wall of the central room. Beyond, there are chamfered beams with steps and run-out stops that may have been reset or are very late. On the upper storey, there is a six-panel raised and fielded door, and it appears that the roof was replaced in the 19th century.