Hankridge Farmhouse

Hankridge Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1600, with alterations made in the mid-20th century. At the time of the survey in May 1984, it was noted to be in poor condition. The building is rendered over rubble and cob, featuring a slate roof with coped verges, brick stacks at the gable ends, and a large external stack on the east wall of the southeast wing. The farmhouse is arranged in a U-plan that faces roughly north, with coeval wings at the rear and a single-storey lean-to porch addition on the south front.

The north front has two storeys and five bays, with late 19th-century and mid-20th-century casements. Original hoodmoulds survive over the ground floor's 19th-century mullioned and transomed windows, while a 20th-century doorway includes an inserted light. The south front features a ground floor three-light ovolo moulded ashlar window under a hood mould, with remnants of a similar window on the first floor of the west front wing and some other surviving hood moulds.

On the northeast corner, there is a single-storey blue lias random rubble wing with a pantiled roof and a brick stack at the gable end, which includes a 20th-century door and window. The interior has not been fully sighted but is said to contain many interesting features, although some are obscured by plasterboard. Notable elements include a cross passage with a stud and panel partition moulded on both sides, featuring a depressed four-centred head doorway centrally placed opposite an opening in a similar screen that is obscured by plaster. There is an eight-panel compartment ceiling to the east of the cross passage and a framed partition in the west gable end room, which also has an eight-panel compartment ceiling that does not extend to the other framed ceiling, ending 1.20 metres short in a full beam. The gable end fireplaces are blocked, and there is a winder stair at the east gable end, along with a dogleg stair in the northwest wing. The roof features a jointed cruck truss and retains some remains of a plasterwork frieze in what was originally the main bedroom. Several ovolo moulded wooden mullion windows have been reset in a nearby farm building, which is not included in the listing.