Pound Farmhouse Including Front Garden Walls

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LUPPITT ST 10 NE 6/56 Pound Farmhouse including front - garden walls GV II* Farmhouse. Circa 1670 - 90, some mid C19 modernisations and refurbished circa 1970. The front and end walls are English bond brick with Beerstone ashlar quoins, the rear is local stone and flint rubble with a section of brickwork, the front is now plastered; stone rubble stacks with C19 and C20 brick chimneyshafts; slate roof (formerly thatch). Plan: the house is built down the hillslope and faces south-east. It now has a 3- room plan; a large central entrance hall which contains the staircase and rooms each end heated by gable-end stacks. The uphill left end (north-western) room is now the kitchen and the right end room is now the sitting room/parlour although originally they were the other way round. The large central entrance hall has been made by removing some partitions. There was, it seems, a corridor along the front wall connecting the end rooms. Although the staircase is a replacement it still occupies the position of the original, rising alongside the corridor behind the front doorway. Behind the corridor and staircase were 2 service rooms (probably pantry, buttery, dairy and the like). A similar plan is preserved intact on the first floor. The house is 2 storeys with an attic over the right (original kitchen) end and there is a secondary lean-to outshot to rear of the left end. Exterior: regular, but not symmetrical 4-window front. Some are C20 casements with glazing but most are old oak flat-faced mullion window containing rectangular panes of leaded glass; some are probably original. The front doorway is right of centre and contains a C20 plank door behind a contemporary gabled porch. The main roof is gable-ended. Interior: apart from the alterations associated with creating the large entrance hall the house is well-preserved, and even here some ceiling carpentry is probably original. In the original parlour (the present kitchen) there is an axial beam of large scantling; it is chamfered with lambstongue stops. The stone fireplace here is plastered with a plain oak lintel and it contains an inserted C19 oven. The original kitchen (the present sitting room) is larger and has 2 chamfered crossbeams with lambstongue stops and a large Beerstone ashlar fireplace with chamfered oak lintel and contains a large side oven. A cupboard to right once connected to the adjoining outhouse (q.v) but was probably a walk-in curing chamber originally. The first floor is remarkably well-preserved. All the doorways here have original oak frames with chamfered surrounds and scroll-nick stops and some contain probably original plank doors. The large chamber over the original kitchen has chamfered crossbeams with scroll stops over supporting the attic floor which is gained by a winder stair rising alongside the stack that end. A secondary corridor has been made through this chamber to the attic stair and the partition is made up of reused sections of late C17 small field panelling. The roof is carried on A-frame trusses with pegged dovetail-shaped lap-jointed collars. The front garden is enclosed by a probably C19 stone rubble wall. Pound Farmhouse is a very interesting farmhouse, an early example of a 'modern' plan and one of the earliest brick farmhouses in Devon.

Listing NGR: ST1846405193

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