Lower Davis Farmhouse

STOKE RIVERS STOKE RIVERS SS 63 NW 4/158 Lower Davis Farmhouse

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Farmhouse. Probably 1630. Much altered and extended in C19. Whitewashed rendered stone and cob. Gable ended slate roofs, some brick to rear. Possibly originally 3 cells in line, but at an early date the lower end must have been demolished and rebuilt to rear to form rough T-shaped plan with rendered lateral front stack to hall with slated offsets and stack at right gable end heating inner room with oversailing brick courses to the cap. To the rear at right angles to these 2 principal rooms is the service range with a gable end rendered rubble stack and also heats the stable block, rebuilt in brick projecting to the left to rear of the service wing. 2 back-to-back outshuts with slated lean-to roofs to central valley in the angle of inner room and service wing. 2-storeys. 2 sashes to facade with marginal glazing bars above C19 window of 3-lights 8-panes per light. Interior: C17 ovolo-moulded beams and fireplace lintel to hall and scroll-stopped beam to inner room. Plank door to rear carved 1855. C17 plasterwork to chamber (now bathroom) above inner room comprising a T-shaped plasterwork tablet with triangular base. Single central palmette with "James and Marie Joce" across the shoulders and "1630" with "R & M" in the base.

Listing NGR: SS6319835309