Sheppards Farmhouse

Sheppards Farmhouse is a house that dates back to the late 17th century, which was remodeled from an earlier structure. It has been altered and extended in the late 20th century. The building is constructed from stone rubble and cob, with the west gable end rebuilt in brick. It features a thatched roof with gabled ends and gable-end stacks that have rebuilt brick shafts.

The house has a two-room and through-passage plan. The larger room on the left (west) was likely originally a single hall and inner room but now has an axial partition that creates a small unheated back room and a staircase that rises from the through-passage. A similar axial partition at the lower right end has been removed. There is a 20th-century rear outshut.

The exterior is one storey with an attic and has an asymmetrical south front with one bay on the left and three bays on the right. There are three-light casements on the ground floor flanking the through-passage doorway, which is located to the right of center, and a one-light window on the left. The attic features three small two-light casements under eyebrow eaves. At the rear (north), there is a 20th-century single-storey flat roof extension.

Inside, the right-hand room has a replaced beam and joists, along with a large stone fireplace that has a replaced bressumer. There is a stud partition on the right side of the through-passage with thin rails exposed and plaster removed, and an old door frame at the rear of the through-passage. The left room features a roughly chamfered cross-beam, exposed joists, and a large fireplace with a roughly chamfered cambered timber bressumer. There is an old plank cupboard to the right of the fireplace and an axial partition that forms an unheated back room. The attic chambers are ceiled, but the principals and tenoned lower purlins are exposed. The roof structure consists of four bays with two tiers of tenoned purlins, a diagonally-set tenoned ridgepiece, and largely intact common rafters and battens, although the south side of the east bay of the roof has been rebuilt.