Lower Pitt Farmhouse Including Range Of Outbuildings Adjoining At Left (West) End

EAST AND WEST BUCKLAND SS 63 SE 3/25 Lower Pitt Farmhouse including - range of outbuildings adjoining at left (west) end - II

Farmhouse with outbuildings attached. Farmhouse probably early C18, extended at right end in early C19. Outbuildings, probably late C18 to early C19. Rendered stone rubble and cob. Slate roof with gable ends, continuous over house and outbuilding. Ridge and right gable end stone rubble stacks to farmhouse with brick shafts. The range is aligned down the slope from left to right with the stables, stalls and former small linhay converted to workshop at upper end adjoining the earlier core of the farmhouse consisting of 2 rooms with direct entry into the left-hand room, formerly a salting house, and heated kitchen/parlour to right. The stack is shared with the early C19 2-room extension to the right end, though here the internal partitions have been altered in C20. This addition was clearly intended originally for separate occupation. 2 storeys. 5-window range. Principally C20 2-light casements, 6 panes per light. Gabled porch with single storey flat roofed extension to right, plank door to upper end to left of single storey lean-to well shelter projecting at right angles to front. Former dairy outshut to rear. Former linhay to left has vertical boarding to loft above plank doors. Stalls have square loft opening above 2 doorways. Stable at left end symmetrical with window opening to each side of plank door. Interior: C19 joinery including ledged doors largely intact. Bread ovens to both hearths to the main stack. C18 pegged trusses to earlier core, C19 trusses to extension.

Listing NGR: SS6778531345