Description

THROWLEIGH THROWLEIGH SX 69 SE 1/250 Throwleigh Barton

GV II*

Large house. Early C16 with late C16 and C17 improvements and extensions, refurbished in the mid C19, modernised circa 1980. Plastered granite stone rubble with some cob; granite stacks with plastered brick chimney shafts; thatch roof. Plan and development: Long main block facing south-east. The original house was a larger than usual 3-room-and-through-passage plan house built down a slight slope although there is no apparent evidence that it was ever a Dartmoor longhouse. At the right end the inner room parlour has an end stack. The hall has an axial stack backing onto the passage and there is a newel turret which once projected to rear from the upper end of the hall. This stair is now enclosed within an early C17 kitchen block built at right angles to rear of the hall and with a gable end stack and dairy outshot along the right side. There are the remains of a C17 bakehouse with end stack on the right end of the parlour. The long service end has been this long since at least the late C16 - early C17 and was divided into two in the mid C19 which provided a new parlour off the lower side of the passage and served by an axial stack backing onto a stable at the left end. The house has been extensively rebuilt since around the mid C17 and because of this the earlier development of the house cannot be clearly worked out. Nevertheless it is very likely that the hall at least was open to the roof. Now 2 storeys with outshots to rear of passage and service end. Exterior: Irregular 5-window front of C20 casements with glazing bars. The central ground floor window occupies the chamfered granite frame of a C17 window with its mullion removed. The passage front door is left of centre and it now contains a C20 part-glazed panelled door. The stable section at the left end is blind but the end wall there contains a door with hayloft laoding hatch over. The roof is gable- ended. The bakehouse at the right end is now a single storey structure with a glass roof. Good interior shows the work of all the main building phases. The passage contains a C20 fibreglass copy of an oak Tudor doorway. The hall fireplace is probably late C16; large and built of granite ashlar with a hollow-chamfered surround. The hall is a large room and was probably floored in the C17 by an extraordinarily long axial beam with roughly-finished soffit chamfers. The C17 kitchen to rear of the hall has a granite fireplace with high soffit-chamfered oak lintel and it includes a side oven. The cupboard to right has been converted from a walk-in curing chamber. The crossbeam is soffit-chamfered with step stops. The parlour is also large. Its fireplace is late C16 - early C17, built of granite ashlar with a broad bead-moulded surround. The 3-bay ceiling is carried on 2 roughly-finished crossbeams. The remains of the bakehouse include a large granite fireplace containing 2 ovens and a soffit-chamfered and step-stopped crossbeam. On the lower side of the passage the C19 parlour shows no carpentry detail and the fireplace now has a C20 grate. The stable has a soffit-chamfered crossbeam with worn step stops indicating a late C16 - early C17 construction. The joinery detail throughout the house is C19 and C20. Stone newel stair from the hall to the first floor. A branch of wooden steps leads off to a low round-headed oak doorframe to the chamber over the C17 kitchen. Here tne 2-bay roof carried on a face-pegged jointed cruck wich slip tenon. It has a pegged lap-jointed collar and threaded purlins. The oldest roof structure is that over the inner room parlour. It is early C16, 2 bays with a truss of large scantling timbers. It has a cranked collar and chamfered arch bracing and contains the slots for missing windbraces. It is clean and has Alcock's apex type M. In the late C16 - early C17 the truss was closed with large framing including a crank- headed doorframe. At this time or later a granite fireplace was inserted into the side of the parlour stack. The rest of the roof was replaced in the late Cl7 -early C18 and comprises a series of A-frame trusses with pegged and spiked lap-jointed collars. The front garden is enclosed by a low C19 granite stone rubble wall with rounded ashlar coping and including a pair of granite gate posts with rounded heads. Throwleigh Barton is a most interesting house. It is larger and grander than most C16 houses in the area. In the early C16 it had a large hall and large inner room parlour. The arch-braced roof is also a very unusual feature in this area, a degree of sophistication which must indicate an owner of higher-than-usual social status.

Listing NGR: SX6688890784

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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