Lower Chelfham Farmhouse

BRATTON FLEMING SS 63 NW 4/57 Lower Chelfham Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. C17 or earlier with C19 alterations. Roof raised in C20. Stone rubble and some cob. Brick dressings. Slate roofs with gable ends. Rubble stack at right end with drip and heavy buttress. Brick stack close to ridge to left side. 3 cell cross-passage plan with C17 right-angled projection to rear of cross-passage forming offcentre T-shaped plan. 2-storeys 4-window range of 2-light casements, 12 panes per light to left side, three 2-light casements 6 and 2-panes to right and left sides. Hall window of 3-lights 6-panes per light with timber lintel. Below are 3 bee-boles set into and near base of wall with slate sills. Projecting bread oven to left with slate capping. Corrugated asbestos roof to gabled porch with segmental arched timber lintel. C19 plank door. C17 inner plank door with moulded cover strips. 2 sashes to right of porch with margin glazing bars and cambered brick lintels. Right-angled projection to rear with rendered upper storey has a C17 two- light chamfered mullion window on each floor to east side, that to ground floor has 2-panes per light to right of plank door with stone dripmould. Beams boxed in to hall. Some early joinery survives including a C18 2-panelled door to room to right of cross-passage.

Listing NGR: SS6150536055