Leytown

CHULMLEIGH SS 61 NE 3/18 Leytown - II Tenement farmhouse. Probably early C18 extended at rear in early C20. Painted roughcast rendered stone rubble and cob. Thatch roof, gable end to right, half- hipped at left end. Rendered stacks at each end, that to left is C20, that to right has bread oven projection. Plan: 2-room plan, with direct entry into larger right-hand room, with staircase, formerly running from back to front but reversed in C20, immediately to left of entrance. Left-hand room formerly unheated and divided into 2 rooms, probably cellar/pantry. Early C20 gable-ended 2-storey rear kitchen wing creating overall T- shaped plan. Exterior: 2 storeys. 3-window range. Upper storey retains early C19 3-light casements with rectangular leaded panes. Ground floor has C20 2-light to left and 3- light to right of C20 leanto porch and doorway. Interior: undergoing alteration at time of survey. (July 1986). Right-hand room has unchamfered fireplace lintel and bread oven. Chamber over has roughly chamfered scroll-stopped fireplace lintel. Roughly pegged A-frame trusses with pegged lapped collars.

Listing NGR: SS6819416437