Paynes Farmhouse

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UPLOWMAN ST 01 NW 4/170 Paynes Farmhouse - II GV Farmhouse. Early or mid C16, with major C17 improvements and extensions, modernised circa 1983. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble stacks with plastered chimneyshafts of C19 and C20 brick; red tile roof, formerly thatch. Plan and development: 5-room lobby entrance plan house built across and once terraced into the hillslope facing east. At the right (north) end is the former kitchen with large gable-end stack including a curing chamber on the front side of it. Secondary front doorway into this room. Between this kitchen and the former hall is an unheated room, probably a buttery, pantry or dairy. The hall has an axial stack backing onto that unheated room. It has a newel stair turret rising to rear of stack and projecting to rear. The main front lobby entrance is onto the front side of this stack. At the upper (south) end of the hall is another unheated room, maybe built as a cider store or dairy, with a disused corridor along the back of'it connecting the hall with the disused parlour at the left (south) end of the house. It has a gable-end stack and a secondary front doorway. Later alterations have made the original plan impossible to determine and its early development somewhat conjectural. The probably original roof survives over the northern end, from the hall onwards but only limited access is possible. It is however lightly smoke-blackened and this proves that the original house was some kind of open hall house heated by an open hearth fire. Really though, the house must; be regarded as largely C17. The hall to kitchen section is the result of an early to mid C17 rebuild as a lobby entrance plan house. The southern 2 rooms, the putative cider store and parlour may be a late C17 extension but this end has been much rebuilt in the C20 although the C17 layout is preserved. The farmhouse is 2 storeys with a C20 single storey service outshot to rear of the kitchen. Exterior: irregular 5-window front of C19 and C20 replacement casements with glazing bars and including, at ground floor right end, a late C17 oak-mullioned window. Also the hall window (roughly central) has a moulded oak head from an early or mid Cl7 window. The 3 front doorways all contain plank doors, the central one is the original lobby entrance doorway and it has a C19 gabled porch. The roof is gable-ended. Interior: the kitchen has a large stone rubble fireplace with a soffit-chamfered oak lintel. A side oven to left is relined with C19 brick. To right there is an unusually well-preserved curing chamber. Its walk-in entrance has been blocked but it can be viewed through an internal window. The interior is heavily blackened and there is a bench-like shelf around. In the front wall there is a small blocked 2- light oak window which is also sooted. Both the kitchen and unheated room next to it have deeply soffit-chamfered crossbeams with bar run-out stops. In the hall the atone-rubble fireplace has an ovolo-moulded oak lintel. The axial beam here is soffit-chamfered although the half-beam along the front wall is moulded with runout stops. The upper end unheated room (the cider store/dairy) has a roughly-finished crossbeam resting on the rear corridor partition. Both this corridor partition and the partition to the south-end parlour have been rebuilt in C20 concrete blocks. The doorway from the corridor to the hall is now blocked, but there is still, on the corridor side a late C17-early C18 fielded 2-panel door. Tne parlour crossbeam is soffit-chamfered with runout stops. The fireplace here is blocked although part of its soffit-chamfered oak lintel shows. It is blocked by an C18 brick fireplace with curving pentan (back) and brick relieving arch over. The roof over the hall, pantry/buttery and kitchen is carried on side-pegged jointed cruck trusses and the part of this roof which can be inspected (over the hall) is smoke-blackened from the original open hearth fire. The rest of the roof structure was replaced in the C20. This farmhouse has an interesting C17 layout and the curing chamber is a particularly good example.

Listing NGR: ST0077216775

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