Hitts Farmhouse Including Barn Adjoining To North East

SY 09 NE WHIMPLE

6/202 Hitts Farmhouse including barn - adjoining to north-east

• II

Farmhouse. Probably C16 and C17, some C18 and C19 modernisation. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone or cob stacks topped with C19 and C20 brick; thatch roof, replaced with corrugated iron over the barn. Plan: apparently a 4-room-and-through-passage plan house facing south-east. The room at the right (north-east) end alongside the barn is the lower end room with a rear lateral stack. The other side of the passage is the former hall with a lateral stack backing onto the passage. Next to it is an inner room with an axial stack backing on to a small diary at the left (south-west) end. Since no internal inspection was available at the time of this survey it is not possible to identify details of the plan or even room function. For instance was the lower end room a parlour or a kitchen? Nor is it possible to determine the historic development of the house although it seems likley that it began in the C16 as some kind of open hall house, maybe heated by an open hearth fire. Farmhouse is 2 storeys with C19 lean-to outshots to rear. Exterior: irregular 5-window front of mostly C18 or C19 casements containing rectangular panes of leaded glass although some have been reglazed with glazing bars, and one is a C20 replacement without glazing bars. There are 2 front doorways. The passage front doorway is right of centre and it contains a C20 plank door. Further left a doorway has been inserted into the former hall and it contains a C20 panelled door. The roof is half-hipped to left and to right carries on over the barn. Interior: was not available for inspection at the time of this survey. However it appears to have had little modernisation in the C20 and much C16 and C17 carpentry (and maybe other) detail is suspected. an internal inspection should be undertaken before any alterations lest C16 and C17 features be disturbed.

Listing NGR: SY0519197360