Comesbury Farmhouse And Walls Enclosing Forecourt On South Front With Mounting Block

Combesbury Farmhouse, dating from the 17th century, is constructed from local stone random rubble with Ham stone dressings and features a thatched roof with coped verges. The farmhouse has a brick stack on the right gable end and additional storage areas to the left and right of the entrance, as well as a gable end on the rear wing. It is designed in an 'L' shape with three cells and a cross passage, including an unheated inner room. A stair turret opens out from the hall, and a kitchen wing was added shortly after the original construction.

The building has two storeys and four bays, with three-light wooden casement windows on the first floor. The ground floor features a small Ham stone lancet window on the left and a four-light ovolo moulded mullioned window under a hoodmould to the left of the entrance. To the right of the entrance, there are similar four- and three-light windows, along with a wide entrance that has a studded plank door, which may date back to the 17th century. The left return gable end is unlit, with a door leading to the wing and a 20th-century window to the left, along with a two-light window above.

Inside, there is a timber-framed partition to the left of the through passage, and a depressed four-centred arch head doorframe leads to the rear. A similar doorframe connects the hall to the inner room. The interior features chamfered beams with scroll stops, and the former kitchen to the left of the passage has a modern grate flanked by unidentified openings, possibly a curing chamber. The kitchen at the rear includes a bread oven and has a collar beam roof.

The walls enclosing the forecourt on the south front are made of chert stone random rubble with flat Ham stone coping, standing about 1 meter high. There is a three-step counting block abutting the foldyard side. This farmhouse is considered a good example of Somerset architecture.