Temperance Farmhouse

BOYTON SX 39 SW 5/11 - Temperance Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse, now private house. Circa mid C17 extended in mid to late C20. Rendered and painted stone rubble and cob. Thatched roof with hipped ends. Brick axial stacks. Plan: Probably originally of two room and cross or through passage plan heated by end stacks and with ground sloping down to right; the hall-kitchen on right and the parlour on left. Service outshut added across rear probably in C18 or C19. In the mid to late C20 the stables and hayloft which were attached on the right, were rebuilt to form an extra room and the outshut extension on the left of the house was also rebuilt to form a fourth and fifth room. Exterior: Long low house extended by later additions and with ground sloping down to right. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 5 window front. Entrance to right of centre with C20 porch with thatched roof and partly glazed doors. Flanked by 2 replacement 2- light casements and C20 glazed doors to left. First floor with 5 replacement 3- light, 2-light and 1-light casements. Interior: Central C17 range retains its chamfered ceiling beams. Lintel to right hand fireplace replaced. Cloam oven. Probably chamfered timber lintel to smaller left hand fireplace. The roof structure comprises 3 A-frame trusses with halved, lap-jointed and pegged apices and chamfered collars also halved, lap-jointed and pegged. The house is reputed to have been an inn, later becoming a Temperance hotel with the rise of Methodism in the parish and finally a Temperance farm. It is now a private house.

Listing NGR: SX3196192073