West Taphouse Farmhouse

SX 16 SE BRADOC A390

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Former coaching inn and stables, now farmhouse, circa C18 possibly with earlier core. Circa mid C19 stables and coach house forming flanking wings. Rubble stone with hipped slate roof and stone chimneys with brick stacks projecting at each end. Gablets behind stacks run back to hipped roof. Through passage, blocked at rear. Almost symmetrical, 2 storeys, 5 window front. Ground floor, 1 C20 2 light timber casement window with fixed lights above to left and 2 to right of central gabled stone porch. Chamfered stone segmental arch over door, circa C17, reset. Inserted later stone volutes at springing point of arch. First floor, with 4 similar C20 casement windows with 1 blocked opening between central and right hand window. 2 projecting wings at either gable end. Originally stables and coach house. Rubble stone and slate roofs with hipped ends. Left hand wing; single storey with semi circular openings with timber shutters on left and partly blocked door on right under arched opening. C20 extension projecting forward. Right hand wing; 2 storeys. Ground floor with double timber door on left and semi-circular opening on right. 2 square openings above. Roof timbers replaced.

Listing NGR: SX1508363298