Description

CHULMLEIGH SS 71 NW 4/19 Lower Dodyard 20.2.67 CV II

Tenement farmhouse, now private house. C17, but possibly earlier fabric survives. Painted rendered stone rubble and cob. Thatch roof with brick stack at right gable end, half-hipped thatch roof to single storey lower end. Rear lateral stone rubble hall stack with tapered cap heightened in brick. Slate roof to rear outshut. Plan: 2-room plan with direct entry into hall to left lower end and inner room to right which has straight run staircase at rear. Single storey former outbuilding converted to form part of dwelling at left end. This end appears to have been rebuilt in the late C18 or early C19, and it is possible that originally the house conformed to a 3-room and through-passage plan. Continuous outshut to rear. Exterior: 2-storeys. 3-window range. C20 fenestration, all C20. 2-light casements, 9 panes per light, except hall window which is of 3 lights. Plank door giving direct entry into hall. Buttress to right of hall window. Interior: Hall fireplace has dressed stone jambs with slightly hollow chamfered lintel and bread oven. This chamfered axial ceiling beam with prism stops. Inner room end altered in C20. Roof not inspected.

Listing NGR: SS7118616252

External Links

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