Burnicombe Farmhouse and Barn Adjoining at East

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BRIDFORD SX 88 NW 2/35 Burnicombe Farmhouse and barn 11.11.52 adjoining at east GV II Farmhouse and adjoining barn. Circa early C16 origins, remodelled in the early C17 with C18 or C19 alterations. Rendered stone; slate roof, gabled at ends; projecting left end stack and axial tack with brick shafts, probably C19 stack at junction with barn at right end, heating barn. Barn has corrugated iron roof (formerly thatched). Plan: The present plan consists of a 3 room and cross passage arrangement, the lower end to the right is a barn, hall stack backing on to passage, heated inner room with winder stair adjacent to stack; 2 storey rear outshut at higher end. The evolution of the house is not entirely clear but it was originally a late medieval open hall, possibly with a shippon at the lower end. The house was probably floored in the early C17 with a granite hall stack inserted, but the inner room appears to have been refurbished as a parlour in the C18, and the higher end of the house was re-roofed, probably co-evally with the addition of the 2-storey rear outshutin the C18 or C19. The lower end was heated in the C19 with a stack backing on to the passage and used as a back kitchen. Exterior: 2-storeys to the left, lofted barn to the right, asymmetrical 3:1:1 window front with a 2-storey gabled porch to the cross passage to the right of the main block and a barn with a lower roofline at the right end. The porch has a 2- light C19 timber casement with glazing bars above the C19 plank front door, the house is fenestrated with similar small 3-light casements. Doorway into lower end to the right, of the porch 1 window to the right. The left return has a projecting stack with a stair turret adjacent. Interior: Largely unaltered since the C19. The rear of the hall stack, facing the passage, is granite ashlar with a hollow-chamfered cornice; the hall fireplace is partly blocked but has agranite lintel and jambs. The hall has a chamfered stopped crossbeam and a plank and muntin screen at the higher end with an C18 door leading into the inner room, where the screen is plastered over, as is the crossbeam. Moulded timber chimneypiece of the early C18 to the inner room. The lower end room has an inserted C19 stack backing on the passage and a pitched stone floor, including the remains of a drain; 2 low blocked windows in the right end wall. Roof: The roof over the higher end is probably early C19 with pegged collar rafter trusses, presumably replacing the medieval roof structure. The lower end roof is rather puzzling: the principals of the main truss have curved feet bedded into the walls below the level of the present C19 timber ceiling. The main truss and the rafters are sooted but the timber ceiling is also smoke-blackened and the carpentry detail of the roof structure, pegged collars abutting the principals, seems very late for an open hall arrangement. On the other hand, it seems unlikely that smoke leakage from the chimney could have blackened the roof timbers so thoroughly, presumably the roof is blackened from curing or smoking. A very unaltered traditional house of medieval origins. A disused part-floored, thatched house,- evidently of medieval origins - formerly stood in the farmyard, it was demolished about 30 years ago.

Listing NGR: SX8011887342

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