Higher Kitcott Farmhouse Including Adjoining Stables

In the entry for

ROMANSLEIGH Lower Kitcott Farmhouse SS71 NE including adjoining stables

4/47 II

the address shall be amended to read Higher Kitcott Farmhouse including adjoining stables

ROMANSLEIGH SS 71 NE 4/47 Lower Kitcott Farmhouse - including adjoining stables - II

Farmhouse. Probably C16 or C17, altered in circa mid C19 when kitchen and stables added. Rubble and cob, rendered and whitewashed, painted corrugated-iron roof, C19 brick stack shafts. Plan: single room depth, 3 room-and-through-passage plan, lower end to left; lower room and through-passage amalgamated C19 to form a single large room; hall to centre with rear lateral stack, passageway inserted between hall and inner room with a C19 straight-flight staircase, inner room with an axial gable end fireplace. At right angles to the lower end a high single storeyed kitchen wing with attached stables. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window range, predominantly C19 20-pane sashes, C20 2-light casement to left of ground floor. 2 door openings, to right a 6-panelled C19 door, to left C19 plank door in the angle of the projecting wing. Windowless at the rear. Attached short range of stables, small opening with plank doors. Interior: inaccessible at time of survey. Much refurbished with C18 and C19 joinery, fireplaces blocked by modern grates; dairy on ground floor at lower end with slate shelves. Roof: there is evidence of a cruck truss over the hall part of the house with collar beam, C18 roof set over. This is the only cruck truss that appears to remain, remainder of roof believed C18, raised eaves.

Listing NGR: SS7503019622