Higher Shutehanger Farmhouse

HALBERTON ST 01 SW 2/157 - Higher Shutehanger Farmhouse - II Farmhouse. C16, with later alterations and extensions. Stone and cob mix, plastered under gabled-end slate roof. Formerly a 3-room, through-passage plan, the lower end to the left of the passage; the parlour end has been largely rebuilt and enlarged in the late C20. 2-storeys. Front: 4 window range, all windows late C20, as is the wide, glazed C20 porch under a tiled roof. End stacks, that to the left, external; axial stack backs onto former passage; brick shafts, plastered. Interior: lower end room with chamfered axial beam with hollow step stops; lower end fireplace with side oven. Hall, cross beam, chamfered with hollow step stop; bressumer between hall and parlour retains mortices for screen studs and a pointed, chamfered door arch. Roof: 3 jointed crucks; morticed and side-pegged at apex; similarily the collars. Early rafters and battening survives above parlour; the truss over the hall could be lightly smoke-blackened. The first floor level was substanially higher above the hall than it was to the adjacent rooms, an indication of possible insertion; but this has since been levelled.

Listing NGR: ST0299413292