Dearswell Farmhouse Including Front Garden Area Wall To South

SLAPTON SX84NW 5/69 Dearswell Farmhouse including front garden 17.11.88 area wall to south

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Farmhouse. Circa early C19. Rendered stone rubble, the front hung with rag slates. Asbestos slate hipped roof with red clay ridge tiles. Rendered red brick stacks at side and truncated lateral stack at back. Plan: Double depth almost square plan. 2 principal front rooms heated from side stacks entrance hall between containing staircase. At the back the kitchen to the left with a rear lateral stack, small dairy at the centre and a cider cellar to the right with a loft above. The cellar has an external doorway on the right side and the loft has an external doorway at the back and is an integral part of the house occupying the first floor of the rear right-hand corner of the house. The kitchen has a side doorway into a later C19 single storey outshut on the left side of the house. Exterior 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-window south front. Small C19 3-light casements with glazing bars, the centre first floor is a C19 2-light casement. Centred doorway with C20 glazed door and C20 glazed porch. Large single storey outshut on left-hand (west) side right-hand east side has C19 plank door to cellar with C19 fixed-light window to left above. Rear elevation has various C19 casements, truncated stack to right and blocked loft doorway to left. Including front wall enclosing small garden area with bowed front; C19, slate ruble with rustic quartz capping and gateway at centre. Interior: little altered and retaining most of its original simple joinery including panelled doors and staircase with stuck balusters, column newel and moulded hand rail. The original chimneypieces in the two front rooms have have been removed.

Listing NGR: SX8048447085