Tump Farmhouse

Farmhouse and barn, whitewashed rubble stone with single slate roof, hipped over barn W end. Small one storey and attic house with lower E service wing and later rear wing. Barn range continuous and probably to longhouse plan-form. Entrance front to yard is double fronted with later brickwork surrounds to ground floor sashes and twin gabled eaves dormers with casements. Stable door under gabled hood on 2 old oak brackets. Brick and render left hand stack with stone weathercoursing. E end lower addition with door to right and small sash to left under eaves. Small brick E stack. Outside stairs to loft on E end. C19 rear wing, 2-storey, rendered with C20 windows and side-wall stack with set-offs. Barn with original ventilation slits left and right under eaves, full-height centre entry, subdivided with C20 recessed infill. Timber lintels to window to left, and two windows set low to right due to fall in ground. Right window was a door. Three C20 skylights in roof. E end to barn has pronounced lower batter to walls and squared quoins, rear half-height doorway, C20 glazing. Lean-to to left, vent loop and window to right.

Interior not inspected 1999. In 1990 house retained one large, pegged A-frame truss, notched and tenoned at ridge beam, plus trenched purlins (tie-beams added). Massive external stack and flagged ground floor with chamfered beams and checked stops. Ground floor partition appears to have been moved to right; blocked-up opening to barn. Barn since incorporated into house, had then three large pegged A-frame trusses with tie-beams; flagged threshing floor with cobbled upper end and timber storage platform over animal house in lower end.