Higher Watchcombe Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1984. A 16th Century Farmhouse.
Higher Watchcombe Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- stony-flagstone-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- 16th Century
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Watchcombe Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around the 16th century. It is constructed of stone rubble and cob, topped with a tiled roof that has gabled ends and heightened eaves. The building is two storeys high and features a long, widely spaced three-window range. The windows are 19th-century casements with three, four, and six lights, all with glazing bars. There is a plank door located to the centre left, and to the right, a single-storey lean-to made of stone rubble. The farmhouse has two brick ridge stacks.
Inside, there is a timber plank screen leading to the cross passage, along with heavy stop-chamfered ceiling beams and a fireplace that has a stopped and chamfered bressummer. An attic doorway features an ogee cambered head, and the structure includes jointed cruck trusses. Originally, the house extended one bay to the left (southwest) into the hillside, where a dilapidated rubble fireplace can be found in the bank, along with a badly damaged moulded stone chimneypiece.
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