Paul's Shop

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GERMANSWEEK GERMANSWEEK SX 49 SW

6/86 Paul's Shop 31.7.85

GV II

Derelict house, may originally have been the Church house. Circa late C15/early C16 with alterations in C17, C18 and C19. Local stone rubble walls up to 1st floor continued in plastered job. Corrugated iron roof gabled at right end, hipped at both left end with catslide over rear outshut. 2 rubble stacks with brick shafts - one is axial, the other is at the right gable end and is semi-circular on plan which is very unusual in Devon.

Either 2 or 3 room-and-through-passage plan with lower end to the right. The inner room may be an addition as a thick wall of apparently full-height divides it from the hall and its roof is not visible. Originally open to the roof timbers at least over the hall and possibly also the lower room. From the evidence of a double door- head between the passage and lower end it is possible that there is originally have been divided longitudinally into 2 service rooms at that end. In the C17 an axial stack was inserted into the hall backing onto the passage and the house was floored- in at this stage. The lower end stack was probably added in the C18. If not original the inner room may also have been added at this time, it remained unheated. Rear outshut added probably in C18, behind lower end and hall.

2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3 window front, windows in poor condition. Left-hand and central 1st floor windows are C19 2-light casements; the two right-hand windows are C19 16 pane sashes of which the ground floor one is hornless and probably earlier. To right of centre is C19 plank door. At left-hand end is doorway into inner room: The rear elevation has an C18 wooden frame to the inner room which formerly had a square section mullion and stanchion bars. Outshut to its left extending to end of home.

Interior: Jointed cruck truss over hall (not fully accessible to view) and truss over lower end, both smoke-blackened. Feet of lower end truss not inspected but it has a moticed collar and a triangular strengthening block in the apex. Purlins also smoke-blackened and appear to be threaded. Roof over higher end not accessible. Passage has round headed wooden door frame beside stack leading into hall. At lower side of passage is similar double door-head with central jamb missing. Adjoining it at the front of the passage is a block of solid wall rising to the roof apex. Hall has unstopped chamfers to longitudinal ceiling beam and fireplace with lightly chamfered wooden lintel, stone rubble jambs and oven which projects into passage. C19 framed stairs in hall to rear of stack. Lower room has similar longitudinal beam to hall and C19 wooden chimney piece with C18 2-panel door to passage. Lower end wall of outshut has a blocked 2-light chamfered wooden mullion window, probably reset but if not suggesting that this is a Cl7 outshut. Despite its condition this house incorporates a number of good late medieval features and as a possible church house it has considerable historic interest. It occupies a prominent central position in this unspoilt village.

Listing NGR: SX4390494228

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