Thatch End And Attached Barn To East

PAIGNTON

SX86SE LOWER BLAGDON LANE, Blagdon 1947-1/2/169 (South side) 10/01/75 Thatch End and attached barn to east (Formerly Listed as: LOWER BLAGDON LANE, Blagdon Nos.1 AND 2 Thatch End)

GV II

House and adjoining barn. Early C17 or earlier origins, partly remodelled in the later C17 with the roof over the house raised; late C20 renovations. Converted into 3 cottages at one time. MATERIALS: Rendered cob; thatched roof, roof over barn corrugated-asbestos, half hipped at right end, gabled at left end; stacks with rendered shafts. PLAN: Single-depth 3-room plan house with 2 rooms to the left, heated by front lateral stacks and an unheated lower (west) end room which may originally have been a single-storey outshut. Possible position of passage entrance between lower end and centre room. To the left of the house there is a wide cartway through an adjoining barn which preserves a late C16/early C17 roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Picturesque 4-window front, the eaves thatch swept down at the left end over the lower end room. 2 massive projecting front lateral stacks with long set-offs. Doorway to right of centre with slate pentice over as porch hood. Second doorway at left end, dating from the period when the house was divided into cottages, has been knocked through left-hand stack. 4 ground and 3 first floor C20 timber windows, mostly without glazing bars, but some replaced with glazing bars at the right end. Double doorway with sliding internal door to barn to left, loft doorway in left return now glazed. INTERIOR: The barn has the oldest roof: trusses with principals with short curved feet with mortised collars, most of the feet of the principals truncated to rear of the ridge. Some evidence for rear door opposed to front threshing door; loft removed expect for over cartway. Interior of house preserves good quality carpentry in the hall, which has a chamfered step-stopped crossbeam and chamfered stopped joists. Fireplace with stone rubble jambs and new timber lintel, perhaps concealing earlier fireplace behind. The lower end room has rough carpentry and a lower ceiling. Stair projection off rear of hall, stone stair removed and replaced with timber. Roof: Pegged A-frame trusses of a late C17 character with halved collars over the centre and left-hand rooms. The roof over the right-hand room looks later, perhaps late C18 with smaller timbers and butt collar. In the roof space an unusual partition at junction of hall and lower end room - a very plain plank and muntin construction which projects into the roofspace. Sited close to the group of listed items at Lower Blagdon (qv).

Listing NGR: SX8593760795