Walleybourne Farmhouse

SJ 40 SW CHURCH PULVERBATCH C.P. -

8/16 Walleybourne Farmhouse -

• II*

Manor house, now farmhouse. Circa 1400, re-modelled in C16 and c.1700 with later additions and alterations. Red brick concealing timber frame, plain tile roofs. Open hall of 3 or 4 bays with stack inserted in north wall and cross-wing added to west end in C16; hall floored over c.1700; eaves raised and house encased in brick in late C18 or early C19. Two storeys, dentilled eaves cornice; one glazing bar sash with segmental head to each floor on cross-wing and one 3-light casement on each floor to left of entrance in hall range; further small casement on first floor in angle between hall and cross-wing and a glazing bar sash window at junction between hall and single- storey lean-to on right; plain boarded door has C20 pedimented doorcase over; main stack roughly to centre of hall range behind ridge with additional stack at junction between hall and cross-wing and end stack to right. Interior: 3 base cruck trusses of arch-braced collar beam construction, 2 of them (including the spere truss at east end) ornamented with delicate cusping at the apex; one of the door heads of the screens passage is still in position and the close studding on the north wall is probably C16; chamfered ceiling beams throughout on ground floor. The house was formerly surrounded by a moat. V.C.H. VIII (1968), p.132 and plate opposite p.111.

Listing NGR: SJ4259504470