New Inn Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
New Inn Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- stark-postern-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1987
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
New Inn Farmhouse is a house, likely originating in the 17th century or earlier, with renovations from the late 20th century. It was later converted from an inn in the 19th century. The house is constructed of colourwashed and rendered stone rubble, with a slate roof that is hipped at the ends. There is a large axial stack with a stone shaft and a smaller stack at the right end. The building sits below the level of the road, with a pitched stone yard in front.
The original layout was a three-room lobby entrance plan, with two rooms to the right of the original entrance and one to the left. Later additions include a 20th-century extension to the left and a 20th-century conversion of a barn to domestic use at the right, set at a right angle to the main range. The room to the right of the entrance appears to have served as a hall, exhibiting high-quality carpentry and masonry; the room to its left has a simpler finish. The left-hand room was not inspected during a 1986 survey.
The exterior has an asymmetrical six-window front. The original entrance is on the left, featuring a late 16th or 17th-century plank and stud door with a gabled lattice porch. Additional entrances have been added to the front, one into the right-hand room and another to the left-hand room, both with gabled lattice porches. A surviving 17th-century timber mullioned window is located in the hall. Other windows are from the 19th or 20th centuries.
The hall retains many original features, including an open fireplace with chamfered ashlar jambs, an ovolo-moulded cross beam, and exposed moulded joists. A short section of plank and muntin screen forms the entrance lobby. Integrated into a recess near the fireplace is the head of a probable late 15th/early 16th-century cusped timber window. The right-hand room has plainer carpentry with some 20th-century replacements, including an open fireplace with stone rubble jambs, a timber lintel, and a bread oven. Remnants of a first-floor chamber above the hall survive, although it has been sub-divided in the 20th century. A 17th-century fireplace on the first floor has chamfered stone jambs with pyramid stops and remnants of a moulded plaster cornice. Some 18th-century trusses remain in the roof.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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