Eastcott Including Shippon Adjoining East

NORTH TAMERTON SX 39 SW 8/17 Eastcott including shippon adjoining east

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Farmhouse and adjoining shippon. C17 or earlier. Rendered stone rubble and cob. Slate roof with gabled ends. Left hand (west) higher end has raised roof. Appears to be a 3 room plan with through-passage at upper end of centre room, with 2- storeyed porch and outshut at rear of upper end and shippon attached to lower end in 1 long range. 2-storeys. 4-window range. C19 2 and 3-light casements without glazing bars. Gabled 2-storeyed porch to left of centre and small stair windows to internal stair turret in the angle. Axial stack at ridge backing onto through passage. Ridge stack between lower rooms and end stack at higher gable end. Interior: Closely spaced roughly hewn ceiling beams at upper and lower ends. Axial stack backs onto through passage and has large fireplace to upper room with stone jambs and chamfered wooden lintel. Roof has collars pegged to halved principals. The roof over the upper end has been replaced. Some early C18 panelled doors inside. Outshut at upper end end has closely spaced ceiling beams. Including circa C17 shippon adjoining lower (east) end, cob with corrugated iron roof with gabled ends and external stone stairs to loft door. Small single-light moulded wooden window frame on south side. Roof of shippon is C20.

Listing NGR: SX3144195662