LEYTOWN

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

CHULMLEIGH SS 61 NE 3/18 Leytown - II Tenement farmhouse. Probably early C18 extended at rear in early C20. Painted roughcast rendered stone rubble and cob. Thatch roof, gable end to right, half- hipped at left end. Rendered stacks at each end, that to left is C20, that to right has bread oven projection.

Plan: 2-room plan, with direct entry into larger right-hand room, with staircase, formerly running from back to front but reversed in C20, immediately to left of entrance. Left-hand room formerly unheated and divided into 2 rooms, probably cellar/pantry. Early C20 gable-ended 2-storey rear kitchen wing creating overall T- shaped plan. Exterior: 2 storeys. 3-window range. Upper storey retains early C19 3-light casements with rectangular leaded panes. Ground floor has C20 2-light to left and 3- light to right of C20 leanto porch and doorway.

Interior: undergoing alteration at time of survey. (July 1986). Right-hand room has unchamfered fireplace lintel and bread oven. Chamber over has roughly chamfered scroll-stopped fireplace lintel. Roughly pegged A-frame trusses with pegged lapped collars.

Listing NGR: SS6819416437

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1022 IOE Records taken by Hedley R Hooper; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Hedley R. Hooper. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project