Foxhole Farmhouse

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HALWILL FOXHOLE SX 49 NW 4/66 Foxhole Farmhouse - GV II Farmhouse and adjoining shippon with loft over. Probably medieval origins with C16 and C17 alterations. Cob on stone rubble footings, plastered to the front, asbestos slate roof gabled at ends of house, bitumen-painted slate roof to shippon, hipped at left end. Stone stack with tall shaft on front heating hall, stone stack at right end heating inner room. A probable jetty suggest that the original plan was an open hall house, but the extant building is largely C16 and C17. The late C16/early C17 plan was 3 room and through passage with a shippon at the lower end and a hall stack on the front, the inner room may have been unheated. A remodelling of the late C17 enlarged the inner room and added a rear right crosswing, containing a stair, the eaves of the main range may have been raised at the same time. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2-window front, the cross passage to the left with a C19 gabled porch canopy carried on timber brackets, the hall stack with a projecting bread oven to the right of the door and regular fenestration of 3-light C19 casements, 3 panes per light. The shippon adjoining at the left has 2 entrances under timber lintels and a loft doorway. Interior The interior of the house is virtually unaltered since the C19. The rear of the passage has been converted to a store room and the rear doorway is blocked by a small C20 bathroom under a lean-to roof. The passage walls are solid to the lower end, partition to the hall, which has a good circa late C16/early C17 granite fireplace with 1 hollow-chamfered granite jamb, 1 hollow-chamfered stone rubble jamb and a hollow-chamfered granite lintel. 2 chamfered ceiling beams have ogee stops and the ceiling of the cross passage appears to have been jettied into the hall. 2 keeping places and a circa early C19 hall bench survive. A fine circa 1700 open well stair with turned balusters in the crosswing with a first floor landing leading into 2 bedrooms and an apple loft over the passage. The pegged tie beam roof trusses are probably late C17 and contemporary with the extension of the house. An ingenious hinged section of the rear door of the hall was cut to allow cider barrels to be brought into the house. Foxhole farmhouse is said to have been the home of the Soby family, the present occupiers, for over 3 centuries and has been little altered since the late C17.

Listing NGR: SX4175396992

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