The Goat House

BRIXHAM

SX9155 HORSEPOOL STREET, Higher Brixham 1946-1/6/118 (West side) 10/01/75 The Goat House

GV II

Farmhouse, now private house. Late medieval, superficially altered early or mid C19. Solid roughcast walls; left gable-end slate-hung. Tiled roof. Red-brick chimney on left end wall. Rendered chimney with offsets and red-brick shaft on right end wall. 2 chimneys on rear wall: rendered to left, red-brick in centre. Probably 3-room cross-passage plan, judging by position of door. 2 storeys. 4 windows wide. Plank door with iron wreath-knocker, strap-hinges; flat wooden hood on concrete brackets. Windows mostly have 3-light wood casements with 8 panes per light; some have old hinges. Window to right of doorway differs in having a pair of sash-windows. INTERIOR: Largely early C18 with later alterations, although a flagged cross-passage survives, flanked by C18 or later plank partitions. Right-hand room has open fireplace with renewed lintel and fragmentary remains of stair turret walls. Probably early C20 stair in right-hand room. Early C18 two-panel doors on ground floor and to axial first-floor passage. Roof construction C18 or later.

Listing NGR: SX9192555196