Kingswood Farmhouse

Kingswood Farmhouse is a building that has been converted from a farmhouse to a cottage. It dates back to the 16th century, with enlargements made in the 17th and 18th centuries, and alterations in the early 19th and mid-20th centuries. The structure features rendered walls over rubble on the right two bays, while the left outer bay is recessed and possibly rendered over cob. The center two bays on the right project forward about 300 mm from the left bays and have quoins. The building has a slate roof set at a slightly shallower pitch on the end two bays to the right. There is a brick stack on the left at the junction with the addition, a large external stepped stone stack on the right gable end, and a large rendered stack at the junction of the two blocks.

The plan is believed to have originally been a two-cell gable-end entry house, with a kitchen added to the right, possibly in the 17th or 18th century, and an early 19th-century cider cellar added to the left when the roof was replaced. The farmhouse is two storeys high, with the left end bay unlit on the first floor. On the right, there are two three-light early 19th-century leaded iron casements, and beyond them are 19th-century wooden casements in segmental-headed openings. On the ground floor, there are two casements on the left and one on the right of a gabled porch that features a half-glazed plank door.

The interior has not been viewed, but it is said to contain a wattle and daub timber-framed partition that divides the two bays on the left, with a similar partition surviving on the first floor that rises to the apex of a jointed cruck truss. The beams are chamfered with step and run-out stops, and those in the kitchen on the right are thought to have been reused. Gable-end entry houses are relatively rare in West Somerset.