Blackmoor Farmhouse

Blackmoor Farmhouse is a manor house with a connected chapel wing, dating to around 1480 and originally built for Thomas Tremayll. A service wing was added to the south, and a porch was constructed in the 16th century. Later alterations occurred in the 19th century, particularly to the interior and rear windows.

The house is built of red sandstone rubble, with roughly dressed quoins, and has slate roofs with coped verges and rubble stacks. It’s a two-storey hall house with a cross-entry plan, accompanied by a service wing and a prominent north chapel wing featuring Perpendicular Gothic details. The layout is arranged as 1:1:1:1:1 bays, with the first and sixth bays beneath gabled fronts. Most windows are 2 and 3-light stone mullioned windows, with ogee heads to each light. Some have trefoiled heads, transoms, iron saddle bars and stanchions supporting leaded lights.

A two-storey, flat-roofed stair turret with a buttress is located in the fifth bay, set at the junction between the main east-west range and the chapel wing. The chapel wing’s north side has a large 3-light window with a 4-centred head, each light with a trefoil head, a stopped label, and a small 2-light attic window above. The chapel wing's south return features a tall lancet window and an ogee-headed doorway with a plank door. The north return has a similar lancet and two 2-stage rubble buttresses with weathered offsets, along with a later sloping buttress. A principal doorway is situated in the third bay, featuring a ribbed and studded door within a moulded ogee-headed stone surround. A two-storey gabled porch, with the first floor removed, is positioned to the front. A garderobe is present on the south return, and a stair turret at the rear; this elevation also has a blocked fine 3-light stone mullioned and transomed window and further 19th century casement windows.

Inside, a noteworthy feature is the roof of the principal range, composed of seven arch-braced jointed crucks with windbracing. Further jointed crucks are found in the south service wing and the chapel wing. The ground-floor hall includes a moulded and framed ceiling and a large lateral fireplace with a cambered stone lintol. A moulded ogee-headed archway in the north-east corner leads to the stair turret, which has an early 19th century staircase. Two smaller, similar archways offer access to rooms on the first floor. Original 15th-century features remain. The east window of the chapel features elaborate flanking niches and a foiled piscina. The chapel's ceiling is framed, with later internal divisions and alterations present.