Greenover Farmhouse Including Front Garden Walls, Gate, Pump and Barn

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BRIXHAM

SX9155 HORSEPOOL STREET, Higher Brixham 1946-1/6/115 (East side) 10/01/75 No.25 Greenover Farmhouse including front garden walls, gate, pump and barn

GV II

Farmhouse, now private house. Early or mid C17; possibly earlier. Solid rendered walls; left wing of exposed stone rubble. Slated roof, corrugated iron on rear lean-to; 2 large rendered chimneys projecting from front wall; tapered caps heightened at a later date. 3 later rendered chimneys on right wing; 1 on left wing. Plan: 3-room and through-passage; hall and parlour now combined. Full-length rear lean-to, possibly original. Projecting cross-wing at either end, very likely later additions; that to right is part of the old house, that to left converted in 1990-1 from what was probably the threshing-barn. Attached to left side of barn is a lean-to with rounded pillar at front end, possibly a formerly open-fronted cartshed. At rear of barn is a lean-to with 2 small compartments (possibly pigsties) and loft over; said to have been an apple loft. Exterior: 2 storeys. Main range 3 windows wide. Front doorway off-centre to right, has plank door with ornate Gothic iron knocker. To right is a second doorway with plank door, probably a later addition since the side of the wing has been cut away to give access to it. Above both doors a lean-to wooden hood with slated roof. Windows have 3-light wood casements with 6 panes per light; those in ground storey have L-hinges; those in upper storey have slate-hung gables. Wing to right has no windows in gable-end. Its left side wall has an 8-paned fixed wood sash in ground storey and a 3-light wood casement with 6-panes per light and slate-hung gable above. At left-hand end of ground storey is a set-back section of walling with another 8-paned fixed wood sash; the lower left pane was formerly hinged, possibly for the sale of milk. Wing to left has inserted doorway and window in ground storey of gable-end; original ventilation slit above. Left side wall has large central opening, probably the threshing-barn door; to right of it is a large window, possibly a former loading-hatch. In right side wall is a former doorway (now blocked and converted into a window); the front wall of the house has been cut back to make way for it; probably it was the rear door of the threshing floor. Rear wall has 2 wood casement windows, 1 with 3 panes per light, the other with 8 panes per light. The supposed pigsties have plank doors with strap-hinges. INTERIOR: to right of through-passage a stud-and-panel partition, the studs lightly moulded in C17/C18 fashion; similar panelling at stairhead. The 2 left-hand ground-storey rooms have chamfered step-stopped joists running from front to back; no beams. Rear wall of first left-hand room, dividing it from lean-to, is of thick wooden studs evidently designed to be lathed over rather than filled with wattle and daub. Roof of main range appears to have been mostly rebuilt, probably in C19, but three C17 trusses survive at right-hand end; through-purlins, slots for former ridge, collars pegged to faces of principals; gouged carpenter's marks, including an unusual one in the shape of an Arabic 4. The feet of the trusses rise from the wall-tops, where they are boxed in. Subsidiary features: garden has stone rubble front wall with chamfered coping. Rises to form gate piers with flat stone caps opposite front door. Iron gate with 5 round horizontal bars; 2 diagonal braces; side-pieces scrolled at the top. Left side of path to front door has low stone rubble wall with a flat stone coping; iron gate to garden, pairs of uprights joined at the top to form hoops. The rear section of wall has a chamfered red sandstone coping with a three-quarter-round moulding at the top. On the right side of path is a short stretch of similar walling. Under the path itself is a capped well which serves a pump in front of right wing. Pump has an old square lead top with initials W B and date 1746. Said formerly to have been called Hill Farm.

Listing NGR: SX9186655299

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