East Bradninch Farmhouse With Attached Shippon Converted To Garage With Room Above

East Bradninch Farmhouse is a farmhouse with an attached shippon that has been converted into a garage with a room above. It likely dates from the early 16th century and was remodeled in the 17th century, with later additions. The building features colour-painted rendered rubble and cob, with asbestos slate roofs that rise at three different levels from left to right, hipped at the left end. There are brick stacks at both ends of the main range. The shippon is attached to the 16th-century core of the house, which was probably originally open to the roof. A floor was inserted in the 17th century when the upper end was rebuilt or enlarged, creating rooms of unequal size on either side of a through-passage. In the 19th century, the roof was heightened over this range, and outshuts were added to the rear, one with a corrugated asbestos roof and the other with an asbestos slate roof.

The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a five-window range, with 20th-century fenestration throughout. The through-passage porch has a slated gabled roof and a half-glazed door with margin glazing bars. There are plank doors at the left end of the earlier range and a plank door leading to the loft above the garage doors at the left end. A single raised cruck truss is present over the earlier range, but the main roof space is not accessible, although part of the old roof structure is said to be in situ. Inside, there is a two-panelled door to the room to the right of the through-passage, and chamfered and stopped beams in the rooms at both the lower and upper ends. Old integral cupboards with panelled doors are preserved on either side of the chimneypiece in the room to the left of the through-passage and in the two end rooms.