Westwood Farmhouse

SX 79 NW 5/156

HITTISLEIGH Westwood Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. C16 with C17 extension and improvements. Plastered cob on rubble footings; rubble and granite stacks topped with C20 brick; wheat reed thatched roof. L-shaped building. Gable-ended main block facing north-east has 3-room-and- through-passage plan with inner room at right (north-west) end and dairy wing added in C17 to rear of inner room. End stack to service room and axial hall stack backing onto passage. 2 storeys. Irregular 3-window front of C20 door set left of centre. Granite ashlar chimney shaft with moulded coping to hall. Interior: Service room has late C17 rubble fireplace with oak lintel chamfered with straight cut stops, stone side oven doorway, cloam oven and pitched slate floor. C19 crossbeam and lower passage screen. C17 oak plank-and-muntin screen beyond back of hall stack. Large hall fireplace with oak lintel. C16 oak plank- and-muntin screen at upper end of hall has been moved to end wall of inner room to create larger space. C16 possibly true cruck truss over hall and C17 A-frame truss with dovetail-lap collar over service room. Roofspace inaccessible. Rear block contains dairy with unheated chamber over.

Listing NGR: SX7165995514