Higher Pitt Farmhouse

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EAST AND WEST BUCKLAND EAST BUCKLAND SS 63 SE 3/26 Higher Pitt Farmhouse -

- II

Farmhouse. Probably early to mid C16 origins, remodelled in late C16 and again early to mid C17. Rendered stone and cob. 2 ridge stacks, brick to left, rendered to right. Tall front lateral hall stack. Basically 3-room-and-through-passage, former open hall house plan with former outbuilding adjoining at left end of inner room taken in to form part of dwelling. Unusually, the stack heating the lower end backs onto the through-passage. Stair turret to rear of inner room and secondary staircase off right rear end of through- passage. 2 storeys. 6-window range. Principally C20 2-light casements. Hall window built out in line with stack and slate lean-to roof to porch with 4-panelled door. Inserted C20 door at left end. Dairy outshut to rear. Interior: chamfered axial beam with hollow step stops, ovolo moulded scroll-stopped fireplace lintel and double creamery to rear wall of lower end. 2 cross ceiling beams to hall, that at the lower end chamfered on one side (facing upper end) only. The stub of a beam above the chamfered fireplace lintel, sited directly underneath this cross-beam, suggests the possibility of a former jetty. Hollow step-stopped bressumer at upper end of hall. Brick lined ovens to both lower end and hall fireplaces. Chamfered cross beam and bressumer to inner room and to former outbuilding. Roof structure: solid walls rise to the apex of the roof between the lower end and through-passage, the hall and inner room, and inner room and former outbuilding. C20 roof structure to lower end, but the peculiarity of the stack position and the ovolo-moulded fireplace lintel suggests this end may have been substantially rebuilt in the C17. Over the hall and inner room are 2 raised cruck trusses, that over the hall is entirely smoke-blackened, that over the inner room is clean. Both have morticed and tenoned collars and formerly carried 2 tiers of purlins. The truss over the former outbuilding appears to be of a similar date but is completely charred as a result of a fire which can only have affected this end. As the stair turret services the chamber over the inner room, the roof structure suggests that the house was built at a transitional period with the inner room ceiled from the outset, the hall originally open to the roof, the lower end possibly jettied, the hall being ceiled in the late C16 and the lower service end largely rebuilt in the C17.

Listing NGR: SS6771231388

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