The Pant

The Pant is a mid-17th century, two-unit plan house that has been enlarged with additions to both gables, creating a four-unit linear layout. The house is constructed of randomly laid rubble stone with a slate roof and a tile ridge. Stone stacks incorporate 20th-century brick flues, with two off-centre ridge stacks and one at the west gable.

The north elevation is irregular and one-and-a-half stories high. Windows are wooden casements, many of 20th-century date. The west front features shallow timber lintels with stone relieving arches and stone sills above the window openings. A large, two-storey gabled entrance porch projects off-centre to the right, featuring a 2x2 pane window in the gable head and a 20th-century glazed wooden double-door entrance. To the right of the porch, a gabled dormer is positioned on the first floor, containing a 2x2 casement window. The ground floor to the right has a 3x3x3 pane window with a stone voussoir head. A hipped lean-to, formerly a cellar, extends to the far right and incorporates a late 17th- to early 18th-century, two-light mullion and transom window with leaded upper lights. To the left of the porch, the first floor has a 2x2 casement, while the ground floor has a 2x2x2+2 pane casement with a chamfered 17th-century timber lintel and flat-and-scroll stops. A projecting wing, originally a granary, is located to the left and features a 2x2 casement on the first floor and a 2x2+2+2 pane window below. The garden front faces south. A 20th-century glazed door is set within a cellar projection at the lower end (far left). The main house’s first floor has two gabled dormers with 2x2 casements, and a square, four-pane stair window is positioned between them, just below eaves level. Two 2x2+2 pane windows are situated on the ground floor, along with a small 2-pane fixed window to the left. A similar 2-pane window and a 20th-century glazed door to the former granary are located on the far right.

Inside, an inner doorway within the entrance porch, featuring a 19th-century four-panel door, leads to what is likely the parlour of the 17th-century house, with a hall beyond a 20th-century boarded door to the left. The parlour has 17th-century ovolo-moulded ceiling beams with flat-and-scroll stops, and joists with a roll at the angle. A chamfered wooden fireplace lintel, also with scroll stops, is present, along with a boarded door to the former cellar. The cellar features a stone-flagged floor, chamfered ceiling beams (one possibly reused), and a 20th-century oak partition to a lobby for the garden entrance. The hall is stone-flagged and boasts elaborate mid-17th-century double ovolo-moulded ceiling beams with flat-and-scroll stops, and a fireplace with a chamfered monolithic lintel and large stone slabs framing the jambs; the original hearth opening may have been wider. A fine 17th-century wooden doorway, with reserve chamfer detailing, a flat head, and boarded half-doors, leads to a modern kitchen, formerly a dairy. On the first floor of the main house, a 17th-century chamfered wooden fireplace lintel with scroll stops and a flat-headed chamfered door frame with scroll stops are also present. The lean-to roof above the cellar incorporates two reused medieval cruck blades as principals, each chamfered and morticed to carry a purlin. The main roof structure includes collar trusses and two tiers of purlins.