Honeywick

Honeywick is an 18th-century farmhouse, possibly designed by Nathaniel Ireson. It is constructed of Cary stone ashlar with Doulting stone dressings, featuring a Welsh slate roof with coped gables and brick end chimney stacks. The building is two storeys and three bays wide, with proud quoins incorporating cornice moulding and kneelers to the copings. Casement windows are set within architraved surrounds; the ground floor windows have flat hood moulds, while the first floor windows are topped with two segmental and one triangular pediment. A central six-panel door is framed by an architraved surround with a keystoned triple moulding and a flat doorhood supported on stone console brackets. Swept wing walls flank the main facade, each topped with pineapple finials and masking 20th-century lean-to additions.

Inside, the farmhouse retains numerous 18th-century features, including a dog-leg staircase to the rear with turned balusters, newels, and a dentilled cornice to the stairwell ceiling. An oval plasterwork panel is also present. All major doorways from the hall and landing have keystoned architraves, with six-panelled and four-panelled doors. The front windows incorporate panelled window seats. A northeast room features a picture panel above a 20th-century fireplace, flanked by cupboard recesses with shaped shelves, reeded timber pilasters, and shouldered broken segmental pediments. The roof structure has tie-beam trusses with pegged purlins.

Historically, it is believed the house was built by Lord Ilchester for a parson son, Reverend Charles Redlynch Fox-Strangways. The house was occupied by Mr. Thornton, who was visited by Parson Woodforde on several occasions, for example, on January 20, 1782.