Yarnacott Farmhouse, Including Ciderhouse Attached To West

SWIMBRIDGE YARNACOTT SS 63 SW 8/217 Yarnacott Farmhouse, including 15.9.76 ciderhouse attached to west

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Farmhouse with cider house, now store shed with loft over attached. Farmhouse probably early C16 with C17 remodelling and C20 alterations. Ciderhouse C17 with C19 alterations. Farmhouse of painted rendered stone and cob with tiled roof. Ciderhouse of stone rubble with corrugated iron roof. Farmhouse has tall lateral rubble stack with offsets to hall in 3-room cross-passage plan, probably originally an open hall house. Cupboard inserted in through-passage with blocked rear entrance. 2 storeys 4-window range. C19/20 fenestration. Corrugated asbestos canopy to slate-capped steps to cross-passage doorway. Buttress at left end. Ciderhouse has external steps to loft plank door. 5-light timber mullion window to rear. Interior: farmhouse has fine plank and muntin screen to upper end of hall, 6 panels wide with chamfer-with-roll-moulded muntins, stopped above the dais bench. Hall ceiling beams are without mouldings. 3 raised cruck trusses set low over hall and inner room, suggesting this may once have been an open hall house, though roof inspection not possible. Stop-chamfered beams to ciderhouse.

Listing NGR: SS6223830652