Nymet Barton Farmhouse

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BOW NYMET TRACEY SS 70 SW 2/44 Nymet Barton Farmhouse 26.8.65

GV II

Farmhouse. C16 with late C16 and C17 improvements; refurbished and extended in late C19. Plastered cob on rubble footings; stone rubble stacks with C19 brick tops; slate roof, thatch before late C19 alterations. Originally a 3-room-and-through-passage plan house facing west with service room at the left (north) end. In late C19 inner room end rebuilt as a 2-room crosswing projecting front and back with central entrance hall and stair. It provided new principal rooms and new south-facing front. Secondary straight flight stair to rear of hall near passage but curving alcove behind suggest this is position of early stair. End stack to service room, axial hall stack backing onto hall and each of crosswing rooms has rear lateral stack. Secondary outshots to rear of main block. 2 storeys. Main block has 4-window front of C19 and C20 replacement casements with glazing bars. Some of the older windows have internal iron glazing bars and odd panes of original glass. Late C19 door to passage left of centre with C20 stone buttress alongside left. Roof is gable-ended to left. Late C19 crosswing is built slightly higher than main block with its low pitch roof hipped each end. The corners have stucco quoins and walls are incised as ashlar. South front has Symmetrical 3-window front of 6-pane sashes (and 2 more on left (west) end) and central 6-panel door with C20 hipped and slate-roofed porch. Deep eaves on shaped brackets. The crosswing chimney shafts are of cream machine-brick and still have original C19 chimney pots. Interior shows work of several periods. Layout is clearly C16. On lower side of passage is a full height cob crosswall which includes C16 oak doorframe, originally shoulder-headed but now square-headed. Service room has late C16-early C17 chamfered and pyramid-stopped axial beam. Its outer end is buried in chimney breast of secondary fireplace of unknown date. Left jamb is original granite but right side partly rebuilt with C19 brick associated with insertion of bread oven and contemporary lintel is a reused section of ceiling beam. Front wall includes a curious niche from which a channel leads outside; a local beekeeper believes it to be an internal beebole and the external hole has a stone lower up or 'landing platform'. Both service room and passage have pitched stone floors. Rear passage door now blocked. Passage ceiling includes a roller for hanging slaughtered pigs. Hall has 3-bay ceiling carried on large C17 crossbeams, soffit-chamfered with scroll stops. The large fireplace is built of squared blocks of granite, mudstone and volcanic stone but lintel is hidden by C19 chimney piece. Massive size of lintel shows in side of fireplace. It is probably C17. Hall stair has small fixed pane window with plain oak frame and containing small rectangular panes of green-tinted leaded glass; probably C17. Roof is inaccessible but bases of straight principals show suggesting survival of C17 A-frame truss roof. Crosswing has late C19 fittings.

Listing NGR: SS7281100690

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