Description

WALKHAMPTON SX 57 SW 13/135 Lake Farmhouse - - II

Farmhouse. Circa early-mid C17 with C19 and C20 additions. Rendered rubble walls. Gable ended slate roof. Axial brick stack. Plan: Originally appears to have had 2-room plan with central passage. Hall/kitchen to left of passage heated by an axial stack with winder stairs in a projection at the front and adjoining window bay. To the right of the passage is a small unheated service room. The house was considerably extended at the rear in the C19 and earlier C20. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2-window front, the left-hand side of the house projects. The 2 left-hand windows are later C19 4 pane sashes, above the ground floor one is a granite hoodmould. At an intermediate level to the right is a C20 single light casement to the stairs. Immediately to the right of the projection is the original granite 4-centred chamfered granite doorway with C20 plank door. This is underneath an open-fronted porch, its roof supported on a stone corbel to the left and a side wall to the right. To the right is an original hollow chamfered granite framed light. At left-hand end is single storey C19 wash-house. Later C19 and early C20 L-shaped addition at rear. Interior: A 4-centred arched chamfered granite doorway leads from the passage into the left-hand room. In the room are heavy chamfered cross-beams. The wooden winder stairs survive at the front of the room. The large granite-framed fireplace has had a C20 fireplace inserted into it but has not been removed. Despite later additions the interesting original plan of the C17 house survives with a number of its features preserved.

Listing NGR: SX5317968318

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