South Weeke Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1985. Farmhouse.

South Weeke Farmhouse

WRENN ID
haunted-floor-briar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Devon
Country
England
Date first listed
4 November 1985
Type
Farmhouse
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

South Weeke Farmhouse is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, likely originating from the 16th century but rebuilt in the early to mid-17th century and again in the late 17th to early 18th century. The structure features plastered rubble walls with some cob towards the top, and it has rubble stacks with 19th and 20th-century brick chimney shafts. The roof is thatched at the front and slate at the rear.

The house has a three-room-and-through-passage plan and faces southeast, with the inner room located at the left (southwest) end. There are end stacks for the service and inner rooms, as well as a projecting lateral stack at the front of the hall. A narrow stair block from the late 17th to early 18th century is positioned along the rear of the hall. The building has two storeys and a regular five-window front featuring large-pane casements from the late 19th to early 20th century, complete with glazing bars, and 20th-century casements without glazing bars on the ground floor. The front passage door is roughly central and located to the right of the hall stack. The roof is gable-ended.

Inside, early 17th-century features can be seen in the hall, which includes two crossbeams with double ovolo mouldings and step stops, along with a large volcanic stone fireplace that has an oak lintel. The jambs of the fireplace are ovolo-moulded, although the lintel soffit is damaged. In the inner room, there is a smaller volcanic stone fireplace that has been reduced in width, with its lintel replaced by a brick segmental arch, likely in the 19th century. A crossbeam from the 18th or 19th century in the inner room is roughly finished. The lower side of the passage features an early to mid-17th-century double ovolo moulded and step-stopped half beam across the front of a cob crosswall. The service end appears to have been rebuilt in the late 17th to early 18th century, featuring a plain chamfered crossbeam, and the fireplace was rebuilt in the 20th century using brick and granite, with a cream oven recess in the rear wall. The late 17th to early 18th-century roof consists of roughly finished tie beam trusses, with the tenon extended at the apex to support the ridge, and pegged lap-jointed collars are present only in the service room.

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