Higher Binneford

SX 79 NE CREDITON HAMLETS BINNEFORD

6/96 Higher Binneford

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House, formerly 2 or 3 cottages. Late C17, extended in C18, modernised 1983-4. Plastered cob on rubble footings; cob or rubble stacks with C19 brick tops; thatched roof. Gable-ended range facing south-east comprising 1 room cottages with end stacks and unheated room of uncertain function between. 2 storeys. Overall 5- window front of C19 and C20 wooden casements. Left and centre room have regular fenestration, 2 windows each. Doors originally on right side but only centre room door remains with C20 porch. Alternate first floor windows rise into eaves. Eaves level drops to right room which is recessed slightly from main front and includes a C19 3-light casement to right of doorway now blocked with C20 casement. First floor C19 casement rises into eaves. Right gable end has massive projecting stack with slate-roofed oven projection, and at first floor level tiny, triangular headed wooden light to right of stack and to left small late C17 wooden 3-light chamfered mullion window with internal flat faces and beaded edges. Interior shows that right cottage is late C17 containing chamfered cross beam with straight cut stops and a side-pegged jointed cruck roof truss. Massive fireplace is blocked. Plain carpentry detail to centre and left room. Large end fireplace exposed; granite and rubble with oak lintel and cloam oven to right.

Listing NGR: SX7600896661