Description

PLYMOUTH

SX55SW STADDISCOMBE ROAD 740-1/8/610 (North side (off)) 01/05/75 Plymstock, Staddiscombe Range of Stables, Barns and Cart Sheds west of Courtgates Farmhouse

GV II

Range of farm buildings including 2 threshing barns, shippon with loft, pigsties and an implement or waggon shed. 1843 datestone with shield and initials ERPB to main barn but range to left of this earlier and implement shed probably late C19. Local rubble walls, some openings spanned by timber lintels, 2 openings of top barn spanned by elliptical arches of dressed limestone; slurried scantle slate roofs to pigsties, otherwise asbestos slate, mostly half-hipped roofs. PLAN: overall a U-shaped plan partly enclosing a farmyard and with their main openings facing into the yard: the 2 principal barns are adjoining to right-hand corner, the pigsties as an L-shaped plan in front; the shippon adjoining at lower level to left of barns and with the implement shed in front of the left-hand side. EXTERIOR: 2-storey barns and shippon, otherwise single storey. Threshing barns have central 1st-floor threshing and winnowing doorways. Shippon has ventilation holes under the eaves, 1st-floor loading doorway left of centre and 5 ground-floor doorways plus 1 small window under loading doorway; pigsties have 5 doorways and implement shed has 3-bay open front carried on wooden posts. Many old ledged doors and some old windows. INTERIOR: has original floors and roof structures where inspected. This is an unusually complete range of farm buildings.



Listing NGR: SX5124651509

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