Scorlinch Farmhouse

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CLYST ST LAWRENCE ST 00 SW 2/38 Scorlinch Farmhouse 11.ll.52 GV II

Farmhouse. C16 origins with C17 improvements and a major early - mid C19 modernisation. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble stacks topped with C19 brick; thatch roof, slate to rear outshots. Plan and development: 4-room-and-through-passage plan house facing south-south- east, say south. At the left (west) end is a lower end parlour with a rear lateral stack. Next to it is the passage with the C19 stairblock projecting to rear. The hall has a large projecting front lateral stack. Next to it is a small unheated room which is now used as a kitchen but was formerly a dairy or buttery. The right (east) end inner room has a projecting end stack and was probably a kitchen. The layout is essentially the product of the late C19 (and to a lesser extent C20) modernisations. The development of the house before is unclear since most of the evidence is hidden by plaster. Nevertheless it seems very likely that it originated as some form of open hall house. House is 2 storeys with a late C18 - early C19 2-storey outshot (a cellar with hayloft over) on the right (east) end and late C19 and C20 lean-to outshots across the rear. Exterior: irregular 5-window front of C19 casements with casements. The passage front doorway is left of centre and it contains an early - mid C19 4-panel door behind a late C19 - early C20 tile roofed porch on plain posts. Alongside to right is the large projecting hall stack which has slate coping to the offsets. The roof is half-hipped to left and to right is hipped over the cellar outshot. Interior: is largely the result of C19 modernisations which included plastering over most of the structure. Nevertheless the earlier layout is well-preserved and enough carpentry is exposed to suggest that a great deal of the earlier fabric survives. In the lower end parlour the fireplace has a C19 chimneypiece and the crossbeams are plastered over. The back of the passage is blocked by the C19 stair, open string with stick balusters. The hall fireplace is blocked by a C20 grate but here the crossbeams are exposed; they are chamferd with runout stops and probably late Cli in date. The former dairy and inner room have axial beams which are plastered over and the inner room fireplace is blocked by a C20 grate. The roofspace is inaccessible and most of the trusses are boxed into the first floor partition. The chamber over the parlour however shows an A-frame truss but this was plastered over probably circa 1650 and the panels made up by the crosswalls, truss and purlins have moulded plaster friezes. Most of the joinery detail is C19, but some is earlier. For instance the dairy has a late Cl7 - early C18 cupboard with a fielded panel door on H-hinges and there are a couple of contemporary 2-panel doors on the first floor. This is an intriguing farmhouse which has had little modernisation since the early - mid C19. This C19 refurbishment is an important phase in the development of the house. Superficially it is essentially an early - mid C19 farmhouse. This C19 character should be preserved but also great care should be taken during modernisation work lest C16 or Cl? features be disturbed.

Listing NGR: ST0314200456

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