Spittle Farmhouse
- Date:
- 2 Jun 2004
- Location:
- Spittle Farmhouse, Chulmleigh, North Devon, Devon, EX18 7AN
- Reference:
- IOE01/12507/20
- Type:
- Photograph (Digital)
This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
CHULMLEIGH SS 61 NE 3/23 Spittle Farmhouse GV II Farmhouse. C17, remodelled in early C19, with C20 internal alterations. Stone rubble and cob, upper storey rendered. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles and hip finials. Brick stacks at each end. Rear lateral hall stack capped with a gable in C19.
Plan: former 3-room and through-passage plan, with parlour to left of passage at upper left end and kitchen beyond the hall at right end. In C20, the screen partitions have been removed and a single large room including the hall and gable end fireplace, formed from the parlour and part of the hall. Single storey dairy outbuilding at right end.
Exterior: 2 storeys. 7-window range. C20 fenestration all 2-light casements, except for 3 light hall window. Porch has gabled slate roof with clay ridge tiles, finial and metal fire insurance plaque. Plank inner door.
Interior: largely altered in C20. Kitchen has large C19 fireplace with cambered brick arch. Hall fireplace has rough chamfered timber lintel. Pegged A-frame roof trusses with lapped collars.
Listing NGR: SS6822217989
This is part of the Series: IOE01/1022 IOE Records taken by Hedley R Hooper; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Mr Hedley R. Hooper. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Hooper, Hedley R.
Rights Holder: Hooper, Hedley R.
Cob, Render, Rubble, Slate, Stone, Tudor Farmhouse, Elizabethan Domestic, Stuart Agricultural Dwelling, Jacobean Dwelling, House, Agriculture And Subsistence, Farm Building, Agricultural Building, Dairy, Food And Drink Processing Site
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