West Raddon Farmhouse

SHOBROOKE WEST RADDON SS 80 SE 2/98 West Raddon Farmhouse - 26.8.65 GV II Large farmhouse and adjoining cottage. Late C15 - early C16 with C16, C17, C18 and C19 modernisations and extensions. Rendered cob and stone with some brickwork; stone and brick stacks; slate roof (formerly thatch). Core of 3-room and through passage plan. Inner room to west (left of front) rebuilt in C16 as cross wing projecting front and rear with projecting lateral stack on left side. Volcanic stone lateral stack projects to rear of hall (partly rebuilt in brick). Former gable stack to right service room now divides main house from C18 partly - brick 1- room cottage. Now 2 storeys throughout. 6 window front of uniform C19/C20 2-light timber casements, 8 panes per light, with glazing bars. 6-panel door in centre behind porch with slate monopitch roof. Cottage door on extreme right. Interior largely result of late C18 and C19 modernisations, e.g. hall with boxed-in beams and C19 wainscotting. Many early features must be hidden. Parlour wing is probably C16 with deep-chamfered and stopped cross beams. Original volcanic stone passage doorway (2-centred arch with moulded surround) has been reset in angle of wings to rear. Roof renewed through but over hall and lower end the remains of smoke-blackened, side-pegged, jointed cruck roof trusses survive, the tops cut off below collar level. An important early farmhouse with many hidden features and structural elements. Domesday manor. C16 home of Thomas Westcote who wrote Views of Devonshire in 1567.

Listing NGR: SS8927002311