Lower Allercombe Farmhouse

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SY 09 SW ROCKBEARE ALLERCOMBE 3/105 Lower Allercombe Farmhouse -

GV II

Farmhouse. Late C16 - early C17, modernised in late C19 and at the same time both end walls were rebuilt. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings with the end walls rebuilt with some patching elsewhere in late C19 brick; one cob stack, one late C19 brick stack, both topped with C20 brick; corrugated asbestos roof (formerly thatch). Originally a 3-room-and-through-passage plan house facing west with the inner room at the right (southern) end. The hall has a projecting front lateral cob stack and the service room has a rebuilt brick end stack. The original front passage door was blocked in the late C19 and replaced by 2 front doors, one to the service room and another to the inner room. The rear passage doorway remains in situ. A small stair turret projecting to rear towards the upper end of the hall is built of brick; it is probably a late C19 rebuild of the original. Now 2 storeys throughout. Irregular 5-window front of various casements, some late C19 but mostly C20 and few with glazing bars. The inner room has a late C19 4-panel door but the contemporary doorway to the service room contains a reused possibly C17 plank door which is similar to the rear passage door. The roof is gable-ended to left and hipped to right. The rear end of the passage has the original oak doorframe. It has a chamfered surround and contains an old plank door hung on plain strap hinges. Good, little-modernised interior. Apart from the end walls the original late C16 - early C17 structure appears to survive intact although parts are hidden by C19 plaster. The passage is lined both sides by oak plank-and-muntin screens. On the service side the muntins are chamfered with step stops. The hall screen is plastered over but the owner remembers covering a plank-and-muntin screen there. The service room crossbeam and end half-beam are soffit-chamfered with step stops. The large kitchen fireplace is late C19 brick. The hall fireplace is blocked by a C20 grate and the crossbeam is papered over. The hall was probably open to the roof originally and the beam inserted in the early or mid C17. It has a soffit-chamfer and appears to have pyramid stops to the front and scroll stops to the rear. The upper hall crosswall is plastered over and no carpentry is exposed in the inner room. The stair turret contains a probably C19 winder stair. The roof is carried on a series of side-pegged jointed cruck trusses. The roofspace is not accessible but where some plaster has fallen away the timbers do not seem smoke-blackened. Only one of the collars shows and it has a pegged dovetail-shaped lap joint. The trusses at the upper end of the hall and lower side of the passage are closed but no framing is exposed. Another first floor crosswall over the hall contains an oak doorframe with chamfered surround. The main hall chamber has a small C17 fireplace with soffit- Chamfered lintel with a low segmental arch. Other C16 and C17 features are likely to be hidden. Despite the late C19 end walls the late C16 - early C17 farmhouse appears to survive very little altered.

Listing NGR: SY0489394635

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