Daubenys

ST 8171 7/235 20.12.60

COLERNE HIGH STREET (north side) Daubenys (formerly listed as Daubeney Farmhouse)

GV II*

Farmhouse, now house, c1400 and C16, rubble stone with stone tiled roofs, coped gables, ridge stack and rear wall stack to main range. North end stack to C16 rear wing. East end gable has unusual c1400 octagonal pinnacle cowl. 2-storeys. Long house plan with converted c1400 barn to west. Main house 3-window range, 2 upper: early c19 16-pane small sashes and eaves-breaking 2-light ovolo-moulded mullion window to left; ground floor 16-pane window in frame of former cyma-moulded 2-light mullion window with dripstone over, pair of 12-pane windows in moulded surround with renewed hoodmould, and to left, under single hoodmould, oak plank door in cyma moulded doorcase and C20 pair of 12-pane sashes in moulded surround. East end wall has ground floor 16-pane sash in moulded surround with dripstone and first floor 12-pane sash with hoodmould. West end, under continuous roof is former barn with C20 openings including left end dormer gable. Rear loft stairs. Rear wing has west side dormer gable with 2-light ovolo-moulded window and ground floor renewed single light and 2-light ovolo-moulded window under continuous hoodmould. Interior: continuous 8-bay wind-braced roof with cruck trusses over house and barn. Upper east end room has arch-braced centre truss and c1400 fireplace with flat stone hood and moulded top course. Fireplace has 1390 RE scratched. Ground floor room east of cross passage has Tudor-arched fireplace and massive beams. East end room has partially exposed moulded stone fireplace and heavy chamfered beam. C16 rear wing has heavy joisted floor to. south end only. 2- bay roof with 2 windbraces at north end only. North end floor probably a later insertion. North end timber-lintel fireplace. Between main house and wing an oak Tudor-arched doorway with original window to right. Barn range has heavy joisted floor to centre bay only. House may date back to C13 but roof and major part probably dates from after 1388 when it passed to New College, Oxford.

Listing NGR: ST8175771064