Olive Farmhouse

Olive Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse dating from the early 18th century, with later 19th-century additions. It is constructed from local lias stone, squared and cut, with Welsh slate roofs behind coped gables. The 19th-century section has a shallower roof pitch, and there are brick chimney stacks. The house follows a U-plan, with the north elevation having six bays and an irregular fenestration pattern. A single-storey wing projects from the first bay, connected by a covered way to the main block, which features a door and sidelight. Boarded doors are located in bays two and six, while horizontal bar casement windows, in old frames, are found in the lower bays three and five, with timber lintols. Upper bays three, four and five also have such windows; the window in bay four is set higher within a flat-roofed dormer. A 18th-century timber-framed window is visible in the west gable. The south elevation has three bays, the outer bays gabled and linked by a coped parapet. It features 16-pane sash windows in plain openings, beneath Keinton stone lintols. A boarded door sits in the lower bay two, positioned under a margined fanlight, set in a Keinton slab surround and a simple open pediment-type hood. The interior of the farmhouse was not inspected.