West Way Farmhouse

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SS 81 SE CRUWYS MORCHARD 2/70 West Way Farmhouse - II Farmhouse. Circa early C17, possibly a remodelling and extension of a late medieval building ; 1970s rear right addition. Colourwashed rendered stone rubble, the front wall said to be cob faced with stone, asbestos slate roof (formerly thatched), gabled at ends; projecting left end cob stack with rendered shaft, axial cob stack with rendered shaft, right end stack with rendered shaft. Plan and Development Present plan a single depth main range, 4 rooms wide, the first room from the left unheated. The right hand end appears to be a 2 or 3 room and through passage arrangement, lower end to the right, hall stack backing on to the passage, the lower end originally unheated. A thick cross wall at the higher end of the hall suggests that there may not have been an inner room ; the right hand end of the house may be late medieval in origin but with roof timbers replaced in the 1930s this remains unproven and the surviving carpentry details on the ground floor are circa early C17. The 2 left hand rooms, a C17 kitchen to the left and unheated service room adjoining, are circa late C17 with less fine carpentry details indicating a late C17 service extension. Single-storey rear left lean-to with corrugated iron roof; single storey flat-roofed rear right addition of the 1970s. Exterior 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 5 window front with 2 C20 brick buttresses C20 front door to former through passage to right of centre, additional C20 front door into left hand room with a long C20 glazed porch with a lean-to roof. First floor window left C20 4-light casement with glazing bars, the others C19 or C20 2-light casements, 6-panes per light. Ground floor window left 3-light C20 casement with glazing bars, C20 window to right of left hand door in enlarged embrasure. The two ground floor windows flanking the through passage door have timber mullions chamfered on the inner faces, the 4-light hall window has internal stanchions. Interior C17 carpentry and joinery, especially at the right end of the range. The hall has an ovolo-moulded axial beam and scratch-moulded joists which have been repaired where they abut the rear wall. Unusual survival of complete C17 exposed first floor floorboards. A trimmer beam in the front right corner of the hall ceiling may indicate former stair or ladder access to the first floor. The passage has thin partition walls at the higher and lower ends; 1930s stair inserted in passage. The lower end partition is, in part, a plank and muntin oak screen with chamfered muntins, some with step stops, visible in the lower end room. This was originally unheated : the small open fireplace with stone rubble jambs and a chamfered timber lintel is probably late C17/early C18. The lower end room has exposed chamfered cross beams and joists. The 2 left hand rooms of the range have more modest details : the left hand room has a chamfered axial beam with scroll stops and an open fireplace with a replaced lintel and semi-circular cob and stone bread oven. The unheated room has a chamfered axial beam with runout stops. In the early C20 this room was used as a harness room and the left end room as a kitchen for the farm labourers. A traditional farmhouse of the region with some fine interior carpentry.

Listing NGR: SS8784110168

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