Verrington Farmhouse

Verrington Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around the late 17th century, with later additions from the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of stone rubble with a clay tile roof, featuring gabled ends and stone tile courses at the eaves. Pantiles are present on the stables, and double-Roman pantiles on a lean-to extension. Chimneys with brick shafts are located at gable ends and along the main axis of the building.

The original house comprised a small two-room plan, with direct entry into the kitchen on the left. Both rooms feature gable-end fireplaces; the kitchen has a winder staircase beside its stack. In the 19th century, a one-room plan addition was built to the high western end, and stables were added to the lower left end. A brick outshut was added to the front of the right end in the 20th century.

The north front is asymmetrical, featuring two windows, with a third within the brick outshut on the right. The windows are two-light casements with glazing bars. A central doorway has a plank door, sheltered by a metal canopy supported on wrought-iron brackets. The stables at the lower left end have a two-light window and plank stable doors. A three-light window is located in the east gable end of the stable, along with a loft opening above. The rear (south) elevation has various two and three-light casements, and a four-pane sash window on the left.

Inside, the kitchen (the lower left room) features a roughly hewn axial beam and a large fireplace, the timber lintel of which is chamfered with straight-cut stops, now blocked by a 20th-century fireplace. The smaller, right-hand room (now centrally located), the parlour, has a chamfered axial beam with straight-cut stops and a fireplace with an early 19th-century chimneypiece with reeded moulding to the shelf, and a late 19th-century grate. Plank doors are used throughout the 19th-century portions of the house. The first floor chambers have been ceiled, but the exposed halved collars and principals suggest the original roof structure remains. The first floor has been subdivided by 19th-century brick and matchboard partitions.

Verrington Farmhouse represents a largely unspoilt, circa late 17th century small vernacular farmhouse, which has been extended in the 19th century.