Range Of Farm Buildings Around Farmyards To North And North East Of Home Farmhouse

KINGS NYMPTON KINGS NYMPTON PARK SS 61 NE 3/174 Range of farm buildings around- farmyards to north and north-east of Home Farmhouse GV II

Range of planned farmbuildings around 2 farmyards. Probably began in C18 but remodelled and extended in circa mid and late C19. Stone rubble and cob walls. Slate and corrugated iron and asbestos sneet roofs with gabled and hipped ends. The Home Farmhouse (q.v) is in the south-west corner and backs on the west farmyard on tne south side of which adjoining the house is a long circa early C19 8-bay cob linhay with a corrugated asbestos roof and an open front facing the yard. On the west side of the yard there is another linhay of circa late C19 with an open 6-bay front facing the yard with 5 red brick piers. On the north side of the west yard an earlier barn, probably a late C19 remodelling of an C18 barn, built of stone rubble with a gable-ended slate roof and opposing double doors, the doorway facing the yard has projecting cheeks and a chamfered wooden frame. Behind to the north of the barn a C19 horse engine house. Adjoing the east of the barn a C19 root house and small linhay and cider house containing a cider press. On the east side of the west yard at the centre, there is a late C19 granary building with a cartway through a wall separating the 2 yards. On the north side of the east yard a range of shippons with a 4-bay linhay at its east end which returns for another 8 bays enclosing the east end of the yard. On tne south side of the east yard another cob range, probably stables or a shippon backing onto the yard with a corrugated asbestos roof carried over a cartway at its west end adjoining the linhay on the south side of the west yard. Attached to the east end of tne shippon a low building with a tall red brick chimney stack which is said to have been a slaughter house. Interiors: were not inspected.

Listing NGR: SS6719019611