South Weeke Farmhouse

MORCHARD BISHOP PISSELTON LANE, Weeke SS 70 NE 5/179 - South Weeke Farmhouse GV II

House, former farmhouse. Probably C16 core but rebuilt in early-mid C17 and late C17-early C18. Plastered rubble walls with some cob towards top; rubble stacks with C19 and C20 brick chimney shafts; roof is thatched to front and slate to rear. 3- room-and-through-passage plan house facing south-east with inner room at left (south-west) end. End stacks to service and inner rooms and projecting lateral stack to front of hall. Narrow late C17-early C18 stair block along rear of hall. 2 storeys. Regular 5-window front of late C19-early C20 large-pane casements with glazing bars and C20 casements without glazing bars to ground floor. Roughly central front passage door right of hall stack. Gable-ended roof. Interior: early C17 features exposed in hall comprising 2 crossbeams with double ovolo mouldings with step stops and large volcanic stone fireplace with oak lintel; its jambs are ovolo-moulded but the lintel soffit is mutilated. A similar but smaller volcanic stone fireplace in the inner room has been reduced in width and its lintel replaced by a brick segmental arch, probably in C19. C18 or C19 inner room crossbeam is roughly finished. Lower side of passage has early-mid C17 double ovolo moulded and step-stopped half beam across front of cob crosswall. Service end apparently rebuilt in late C17-early C18 with plain chamfered crossbeam and fireplace rebuilt in C20 with brick and granite. Cream oven recess in rear wall. Late C17-early C18 roof comprising roughly-finished tie beam trusses with the tenon extended at the apex to seat the ridge. Pegged lap-jointed collars to service room only.

Listing NGR: SS7611606311