Description

HALBERTON BRITHEM BOTTOM ST 01 SW 2/183 - Higher Coombe Farmhouse including - adjacent barns and linhay II Farmhouse. C17 with later alterations. Cob, stone plinth, plastered, with 2 stone rear wings, all under gabled-end synthetic slate roof. Possibly a former 3-room, through-passage plan with 2 later C17 rear wings which appear to have been added at the same time. Left hand end stack, formerly external; rear (formerly possibly lateral) stack now at junction of a wing and main range; lateral internal stack to east wing. 2-storeys. Front: (i.e. facing garden and away from roadside): 4-window range, 4-light early C19 casement window above 8 leaded panes per light, all except 1 light fixed; ground floor: left hand window of 6 bays, C19 casement, 8-panes per light, 1 light with stanchion; C19 four-light window to right of wide gabled C20 porch (with three 3- light windows and side door); C20 window to right. The C19 casements appear to fill the original C17 embrasures. Rear: 4-light window to each floor of end elevation of wings with the exception of ground floor window of right-hand (west) wing which is of 5 (and was originally of 10) lights. Casements appear to be early C19 although some of the surrounds may be original; 8 leaded panes per light. Left-hand (east) wing with wide panelled door, recessed. Interior: end fireplace (renewed) with newel staircase and smoking chamber built into flanking recesses; chamfered lintel with scroll stop and bar; back oven (blocked); this room has 3 deeply chamfered cross beams. Roofs (where inspected) are C19; A-profile. The adjacent farmbuildings (2 storeyed barn with granary, and a linhay) arranged around the small farmyard, may incorporate C17 work, and are included in this listing.

Listing NGR: ST0102810316

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)