Jarvishayes Farmhouse

SX 99 NE BROADCLYST

5/28 Jarvishayes Farmhouse - 30.6.61 - II

Farmhouse with detached barn forming an enclosed courtyard. C15 with later additions and alterations. Cob, stone plinth, rendered under gabled and slate roof. 3 room, through-passage plan with 2 rear wings comprising barns and storage. 2 storeys. Front: 3 window range, all 2- and 3-light windows with timber casements renewed in C19. Large external stack formerly heating hall, and an internal stack heating kitchen (to right), all with brick shafts. Rear: higher end brought out slightly under catslide roof; 2-light casement windows to first floor, with brick, slate roofed lean-to below. Both rear wings under slate gabled-end roofs, with sandstone rubble and cob infilling with C19 loft openings and doors. Freestanding barn similar, but perhaps retaining a little older work. Interior: lower end with 2 coarsely chamfered beams, and a large (now obscured) fireplace. Screens to passage may survive behind present walling material. Hall with intersecting beams; fireplace (now obscured) retains smoking chamber. Rear newel from hall. Roof: 4 jointed crucks visible in upper rooms, those above hall with chamfered collars, all with side-pegging and morticed; wind braces survive wholly or in part.

Listing NGR: SX9801096560