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Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1860, having very shallow bed outshot projection to rear wall. Two-bay single-storey outbuilding attached to south end. Pitched straw-thatched roof with mesh over and wired to stone pegs to eaves, and two smooth-rendered chimneystacks with thatch flashings to base of front. Corrugated-asbestos roof to outbuilding, with replacement metal rainwater goods, and roughcast-rendered walls. Square-headed openings throughout, with replacement timber casement windows to house and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window to outbuilding, and replacement timber battened half-doors to both. Interior of house has roughly-hewn pegged timber A-framed truss roof with purlins and ridgepole providing rounded profile to thatch, and with densely-set rough timber ribs that support sod underthatch and thatch. Set with rear to road, with single-storey outbuildings to south and west with pitched corrugated-iron roofs and mainly limewashed rubble stone walls. Field-stone boundary wall to road.

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