Yellingham Farmhouse

FENITON ST 00 SE 3/78 Yellingham Farmhouse - - II

Farmhouse. Mid C16 witn C17 improvements; reduced in size in the late C19, modernised circa 1970 wnen a barn was brought into domestic use. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble stacks topped with C19 and C20 brick; asbestos slate, formerly thatch. Plan and development: farmhouse has a 3-room plan and faces south. Large right room is the kitchen with an axial stack backing onto the centre room, a small unheated room with stair turret projecting to rear. The left (west) end room is the parlour with a gable-end stack. Circa 1970 the partition between this and the centre room was removed. 1-room plan former dairy block projects to rear of the parlour. The kitchen is the C20 conversion. The other 2 rooms of the main block are in fact the hall and inner room of a C16 3-room-and-through-passage plan house. The parlour/former hall stack once backed onto the passage but passage and service end were demolished in the C19. Hall was floored over and dairy block added in the early - mid C17. 2 storeys. Exterior: irregular 4-window front of C20 casements with glazing bars. Front doorway is at the left end and contains a C19 plank door behind a contemporary gabled porch with shaped bargeboards. Roof is gable-ended. Interior: no carpentry detail is exposed in the former inner room and only the headbeam remains of an oak plank-and-muntin screen between hall and inner room. Hall fireplace is blocked by a C19 grate. Hall and dairy crossbeams are chamfered with step stops. Roof over this section is carried on side-pegged jointed cruck trusses. The roofspace is inaccessible but the trusses are said to be clean.

Listing NGR: ST0831800480