Emmett Farmhouse

SS 62 NW 11/6

BISHOPS TAWTON Emmett Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. Probably C16 with C17 remodelling, upper end rebuilt and extended in 1923 following fire. Colourwashed rendered rubble and cob. Slate roof with brick ridge stack, thatched roof to right end with brick stack with lipped cap and lateral hall stack to front with offsets, tapered cap, heightened in brick. Projecting bread oven with slate canopy to its left. Hall and inner room survive with rebuilding and extension of lower end to left of cross-passage. 2 storeys. 5 window range. C20 fenestration to left of hall stack, C19 2-light casement, 6 panes per light and 9 panes per light above tall C19 2-light window with 4-paned window inserted below and 2-light window to right, 12 panes per light. 4 panelled door with overlight. C19 2-light window 2 panes per light above rubble lean-to to rear of thatched portion with part slate, part corrugated asbestos roof. Interior: there is no access to roof space but the elaborately moulded beams to the hall with large bar stops raise the ceiling height above the plastered downstand construction incorporating moulded scroll-stepped bressumer at lower end suggesting possibility of jettied lower end to former open hall.

Listing NGR: SS6051925670