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IDEFORD CHURCH ROAD, Ideford SX 87 NE 4/90 Longbarn 23,1.55

GV II

House. Circa C18 with C20 renovations and rear addition. Original range colourwashed rendered cob on stone rubble footings; thatched roof, gabled at ends, the thatch replaced with wooden shingles to the rear of the ridge; projecting end stacks with brick shafts, the projections continued to the rear for left and right stair turrets. The rear addition of narrow service rooms is colourwashed rendered brick with a wooden shingle lean-to roof. The original plan appears to have been a single depth main range, 2 rooms wide with heated rooms on either side of a passage. The right hand fireplace has the remains of a bread oven and may have been the original kitchen with a parlour to the left, however, the former existence of newel stairs at either end of the house may indicate 2 occupations at an early date. The rear service addition is probably 1930s but may have replaced earlier outshuts, a "pantry" and "back place" referred to in an auction catalogue of 1920. The newel stairs adjacent to each stack have been replaced by a rear centre stair in the rear addition. 2 storeys and attic. Attractive symmetrical 3-bay front, the eaves thatch eyebrowed over 3 first floor small attic windows which are C18 2-light casements with square leaded panes. Central gabled porch, probably rebuilt in the C20, first and ground floor windows 3-light casements with square leaded panes and shutters. These windows may be replacements but the embrasures are probably original. Interior The ground floor rooms and passage have exposed joists of slender scantling. Both fireplaces are largely rebuilt but the right hand fireplace has a chamfered lintel with runout stops that may be original. Recesses with rounded walls adjacent to each stack indicate former stair turrets. No access to apex of roof at time of survey (1986) but the principal rafters are straight with C20 collars and tie beams. A 1920 auction catalogue in the possession of the owner advertises "2 stucco and thatched cottages (formerly 1)" The house appears to have been divided so that the left hand cottage had the porch, a "Living Room, back place, 2 bedrooms on the first floor and 1 on the second floor", the right hand cottage had a "Living Room with range, pantry, Bedroom on first floor and 2 Bedrooms on the second floor". A particularly charming exterior. The possibility that the building was in 2 occupations at an early date and may have been designed for this, facilitating its use as "2..... cottages" in the 1920's in particularly interesting. Group value with the church.

Listing NGR: SX8935577367

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