Lower Collipriest Farmhouse

TIVERTON

SS91SE COLLIPRIEST LANE, Collipriest 848-1/7/67 Lower Collipriest Farmhouse 14/12/72

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Farmhouse and attached barn. Probably C16 and C17, extended later. MATERIALS: stucco and render on probable cob and rubble. rubble walls to barn; water-reed thatched roofs, hipped at the corners and 2 hipped ends; rubble axial stack towards left of front range, brick axial stack right of centre and brick stack to front end of right-hand wing. PLAN: built around rectangular courtyard with original 3-room plan at the front, 2-room-plan wing at right angles behind left-hand side that is linked to barn parallel at rear that has heated domestic wing at right angles in front of its right-hand side, just stopping short of the rear of the original house. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical fenestration to 5-window range front. Early/mid C20 steel windows throughout, most with leaded glazing; those to the principal elevations with wooden shutters. Left-hand return is 4-window range with central doorway with half-round-plan thatched open porch. Rear is barn front with 3 windows and 3 doorways including central round-arched doorway fronting a through-passage. Courtyard has 3-window range to rear of main block, with C20 lean-to verandah to ground floor. Irregularly-disposed openings to other elevations. INTERIOR: not inspected, except to inspect large C16 or C17 fireplace to centre of front range spanned by oak lintel with integral complex-moulded cornice. Barn has lapped and pegged collar trusses. Lower Collipriest Farmhouse is believed to have the largest thatched roof in Devon. Merits further inspection to unravel its plan development and phasing.

Listing NGR: SS9534411085