Stancombe Farmhouse

Stancombe Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 16th century or earlier, with extensions and alterations in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is constructed of stone rubble, limewashed to the front, and has a clay double Roman tile roof with hipped and gabled ends. Rendered axial and gable-end stacks are present.

The house has an overall L-shaped plan. The main front range consists of two rooms and a through-passage. The hall is located on the east side, featuring a gable-end fireplace and a possible stair-turret on the front. A small parlour was formed in the early 18th century to the west, incorporating an axial stack. Rear outshuts, likely from the 17th century, contain staircases. A 17th-century kitchen and dairy wing extends to the rear of the hall, with an 18th-century cider house addition at the north end.

The two-storey south front has an asymmetrical three-window facade, with the main roof extending over a projection on the right. Modern 2 and 3-light casement windows are present, along with a large 4-light hall window to the right of the central doorway, which is protected by a rendered porch with a lean-to roof. An inner doorway features a moulded Tudor-arch timber frame and an old plank door. A similar, chamfered, door frame is found at the rear, with a plank door, cover-moulds, and outshuts to the left and right. The rear kitchen/dairy wing has a 3-light ovolo-moulded timber window and a 3-light cider-house window on its east side.

A yard sits at the rear, enclosed by the rear wing on the east side, single-storey outhouses to the north, and a stone wall to the west.

The interior includes a through-passage with chamfered plank-and-muntin screens; those on the west side have been rebuilt. The hall features deeply chamfered cross-beams with cyma stops, a large blocked fireplace with a cambered chamfered bressumer, moulded shelf, and gun-rack. Chamfered doorframes lead to the stairs and kitchen at the rear. The west end has deeply chamfered cross-beams and a small parlour to the west of the cross-passage with a bolection-moulded door and fielded panel cupboards. The west wall of the parlour is formed from a re-used plank-and-muntin screen with cyma moulded muntins and a chamfered head-beam. A moulded doorframe leads to the stairs to a ceiled chamber above the west end, containing a plastered-over cruck blade and a fielded 3-panel door. The kitchen, behind the hall, has roughly chamfered axial beams. The dairy has deeply chamfered cross-beams with notched cyma stops and a 3-light ovolo-moulded timber window frame. The chamber above the dairy has a round-back fireplace. The newel stairs from the hall to the hall chamber have chamfered frames at the bottom and top with cyma stops, with a 2-panel door at the bottom. The ceiled hall chamber retains remains of a moulded plaster cornice. The straight roof principals are plastered over. The cider-house, behind the dairy, has chamfered axial beams, a cider-press, and a tie-beam truss roof.