Woodland Farmhouse

SX 79 NE CREDITON HAMLETS

6/95 Woodland Farmhouse

II*

Farmhouse. Probably early C16 with major later C16 and C17 alterations. Plastered cob on rubble footings; cob, brick and rubble stacks; wheat reed thatched roof. 3- room-and-through-passage house with inner room at south-west end (left of south- east facing front). Gable-end stack to inner room, projecting front lateral stack to hall, and C19 lateral stack to rear of service room. C17 gabled stair turret to rear of hall and C20 outshots to rear. 2 storeys. Irregular 4-window front with passage door in late C16-early C17 double-ovolo moulded oak frame right of large projecting hall stack. C19 door to inner room at left end. 2-windows between have mid-C17 oak frames with external ovolo and internal ogee moulded mullions; 3- lights to inner room, 4 to hall. A similar 3-light oak window to first floor left. Other windows have C20 wooden casements. All 3 first floor windows are half- dormers with gabled roofs and another exists on rear elevation. Stair turret has small mid C17 oak windows with chamfered mullions; upper of 3 lights to front and lower of 2 lights on side. An C18 flat-faced mullion, 2-light window to rear of hall now to C20 outshot. Rear passage doorframe identical to front. Good interior. Passage lined both sides with C16 oak plank-and-muntin screens (incomplete on lower side). Both have chamfered muntins with step stops. Inner and service room crossbeams have same treatment suggesting that they were floored before 1600 but hall still open into C17. Mid C17 upper hall screen removed but head beam remains supported on end stile to front with scroll stop and doorpost to rear with bar runout stop the same treatment as hall crossbeam. To rear of hall a mid C17 ogee-moulded oak doorframe with cleaved roll stops leads to oak winder stair which rises over footings of smaller C16 newel turret. Roof at each end replaced but side-pegged jointed crucks survive over hall and lower side of passage. Although roof space inaccessible hall truss apparently sooted suggesting that open hall originally heated by open hearth fire. Cob fireplace with plain lintel to hall suggests C17 date. Unmodernised farmhouse with good internal and external detail. It is probably site of a medieval estate and its name is that of one of eighteen tithings of Crediton Hundred. First recorded in 1249 (Devon SMR).

Listing NGR: SX7740297049