Mountstephens Farmhouse Including Outbuildings Adjoining to North-west

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LUPPITT ST 10 NE 6/54 Mountstephens Farmhouse including - outbuildings adjoining to north- west - II Farmhouse. C17, origins, enlarged and much rebuilt in the mid - late C18, C19 front block and rear outbuildings, modernised in 1987. Local stone and flint rubble, the front is plastered with sections lightly incised as ashlar; stone rubble stacks with stone rubble chimneyshafts; concrete tile roof (formerly thatch). Plan and development: the house has an L-plan. The main block faces south-west and it has a 3-room-and-through-passage plan but not the late medieval model. At the right (north-east) end there is a parlour with a gable-end stack with a winder stair alongside. The other side of the passage is the dining room and this has been enlarged by removing the passage partition this side. This dining room has a large axial stack backing onto the kitchen at the left (south-west) end which has a projecting rear lateral stack. An unheated 1-room plan service wing (now used as the kitchen) projects at right angles in front of the former kitchen. Although much of the C17 house was rebuilt in the C19 it seems that the original house had a 2-room plan and occupied the parlour and dining room. In the C17 the dining room was the kitchen. In the C18 a new kitchen was built and in the C19 the service wing was added. House is 2 storeys. Exterior: the main block has a symmetrical 3-window front of C19 and C20 casements, the latest are iron-framed and without glazing bars. These are arranged around the former passage front doorway which contains C20 double doors behind a contemporary glass-walled porch. The main roof is gable-ended to right and hipped to left. The gable-end of the service wing contains an introduced C19 French window. The rear of the main block includes older windows and one of these contains rectangular panes of leaded glass. The former passage rear doorway has a C19 porch with cusped bargeboards and contains a 6-panel door. Interior: the right end room, the parlour, has a stone fireplace with reused chamfered oak lintel and alongside is an C18 cupboard with fieled panel doors on H-L hinges. The central dining room has a large fireplace from the C17 kitchen, it is stone with a plain oak lintel and the back shows the blocked openings of a disused oven, curing chamber and ash pit. The left end room, the C18 kitchen, has a stone fireplace with chamfered oak lintel and there is a large oven housing and remains of a walk-in curing chamber projecting to rear. This room has a C17 chamfered and step-stopped crossbeam, presumably it is reused. The roof over the main block is C18 but employs unusually sophisticated carpentry for the time; it is carried on tie beam trusses with pegged and spiked lap-jointed collars, staggered butt purlins with tusk tenons and includes carpenters assembly marks. The service wing has plain C19 carpentry. A C19 gable-ended dairy with cheese left over is connected to the back of the kitchen by a single storey outshot. The cheeseloft is gained by an external flight of stone steps in the rear end wall.

Listing NGR: ST1653806916

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