Ditchetts Farmhouse

TIVERTON

SS91SW LONGDRAG HILL 848-1/4/30 Ditchetts Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse, 2 houses under one roof. C17 or earlier. Rendered cob walls with some brick re-facing; dry slate roof; brick stack and another towards rear towards right. 4-room plan, with presumed parlour on the left, then the hall with passage position on its right, then the original lower end, now a 2-room plan, which was probably extended c1700. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; overall 6-window range, the higher end a 3-window range with central doorway and the lower end similar but with the openings set lower; gabled porch in front of lower end. INTERIOR: has been little altered and retains much of its original fabric including: floor structures with C17 chamfered and stopped crossbeams to the hall and boxed in crossbeam to the presumed parlour; simple chamfered crossbeams to the room right of the passage and a c1700 winder stair, with octagonal newel, between the lower end rooms in front of the stack. Roof structure not inspected except to note the boxed-in feet of probable original trusses bearing on the wall tops in the bedrooms. There is a simple late C19 boarded partition between the hall and the parlour and most of the wall and ceiling surfaces retain old plasterwork.

Listing NGR: SS9379712882