Middle Huish

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INSTOW SS 42 NE 3/67 Middle Huish GV II

Farmhouse, now private dwelling. Late C16, remodelled in late C18/early C19 with late C20 alterations. Rendered stone rubble, cob and some brick. Slate roof with gable ends, scantle slate roof to single-storey rear kitchen wing. Stone rubble stack with tapered cap at right end, lateral front hall stack demolished and rebuilt in C19 as lateral brick stack to rear enclosed in 2-storey outshut. Complex plan development. The late C16 house consisted of hall and inner room, the hall heated by the demolished front lateral stack, the inner room by the gable end stack. Stair turret to rear upper end of hall. The lower gable end of the hall has been entirely rebuilt in late C18/early C19 when a canted bay window was added (since demolished) probably replacing a lower end and through-passage. At the same time, a passage was made at the lower end of the hall with a doorway created at this front left end. At the upper end of the hall, a further partition was introduced to create a small dairy between the hall and inner room. The rear stair turret was also enlarged creating a 2-storey outshut to the rear of the hall. At this period the house appears to have been in 2 occupations. In C19 a short right- angled rear single storey kitchen extension and a dairy/scullery with lofted granary was added at right upper end. In late 1970s/early 1980s the central dairy was altered to form a wide through-passage with the creation of a central doorway, and part of the passage partition at the lower end removed. 2 storeys. 2-window range, the main range breaking forward slightly above the hall. Sash, 3 over 6 panes to left and C19 4-light casement, 6 panes per light to right. Ground floor has C20 French windows at left end, 12-paned horned sash to left and sash 3 over 6 panes to right of entrance with C20 porch and 4-panelled door, the upper panels with cusped heads, brought from a chapel at Lynton. Steps to door at gable end of granary. Interior: chamfered ridged scroll-stopped ceiling beam to hall. Chamfered ceiling beam with run-out stops and bressumers to inner room, with unusual decorative pyramid stops. Creamery to left of inner room fireplace with renewed timber lintel. Cl7 chamfered door surround to hall/inner room doorway. C18 4-panelled door to rear of present entrance hall. Geometrical staircase with moulded handrail, every third baluster replaced. Interesting roof structure. Over hall are 3 trusses with morticed and tenoned cranked collars, 2 tiers of threaded purlins and ridge purlin, the majority of rafters intact. At the lower end the purlins have been roughly sawn off, suggesting a similar structure extended beyond the present gable end wall. The truss at the upper end forms closed stud partition between hall and inner room. Suspended beneath this section is a barrel ceiling to the principal chamber over the hall, now divided into 2 rooms. Over the inner room and 2 trusses with straight principals, probably of C18 date. No evidence of smoke-blackening.

Listing NGR: SS4886329705

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