Moor Edge Farmhouse

SX 99 NE BROADCLYST MOOR EDGE LANE

5/113 Moor Edge Farmhouse - II -

Former farmhouse. Circa 1500 or earlier, with later modifications. Cob, stone plinth, rendered, with half-hipped thatched roof. Originally a 3-room, through- passage plan. The lower end (to the right of passage) rebuilt since 1950. 2 end stacks and 2 external rear lateral stacks. 2 storeys. Front: Scattered fenestration; 2 doorways, one to the extreme left, the main doorway (to through passage) set between 2 buttresses, and with thatched timber porch; 3 ground-floor windows and 3 at 1st floor, lintels at eaves level, all casements timber, C20. Rear: 2 entrances, one to the rebuilt lower end, the other opposed to front passage door and left of the external lateral stack heating Hall. 5 ground-floor 2-light windows, and three 2-light windows to 1st floor, all timber casements, C20; one upper 3-light window, timber casement, 8 leaded panes to each light, late C18/early c19. Interior: Hall retains 2 plank and muntin screens, that to passage side with unchamfered studs, joists trenched into bressumer, one joist a reused moulded timber. Screen to parlour end, studs chamfered with mason's mitres, and step stops low down. Fireplace: chamfered timber lintel, and stone back with various alcoves. Axial beam with pyramid stops. Hall ceiling 12" above floor level of adjacent rooms. Roof: 2 jointed crucks with trenched purlins; apexes morticed and side pegged; left-hand end hip cruck. Entire higher end smoke blackened. Later roof over the whole.

Listing NGR: SX9799098032