Townsend Farm House

ST 2404 STOCKLAND YARCOMBE ROAD, STOCKLAND 17/577 8.5.67 Townsend Farm House GV II*

Farm house. Circa early C16 house with circa C17 or earlier parlour wing. Roughcast stone rubble. Thatched roof with hipped and gabled ends. Two storeys. Three window range. Ground and first floor left hand are four-light ovolo moulded stone mullion windows. The remainder are later two and three-light casements with glazing bars. To right of centre heavy wooden doorframe with cambered head and plank door. Stone porch with moulded roughly four-centred arch and thatched roof. Stone rubble ridge stack off centre and brick stack at north end. Parlour wing at rear with gable-ended thatched roof. Rear porch to cross passage, stone with timber-framed storey above, and the roof thatch swept over. Interior: smoke-blacked roof. Jointed cruck trusses with arched braces to collars. Cruck joints are face-pegged. Through passage with section of plank and muntin screen with depressed arch doorway to hall. Inserted floor in former open-hall with intersecting deeply chamfered ceiling beams and fireplace with chamfered wooden bressumer. Tudor-arched doorways on 1st floor. Parlour wing at rear may be C16 because it is said to have smoke-blackened roof.

Listing NGR: ST2454504692