Atway Farmhouse, Including Area Railing And Gate In The Cobbled Area Adjoining Atway Cottages

BOVEY TRACEY MORETONHAMPSTEAD ROAD (north SX 87 NW side), Bovey Tracey Atway Farmhouse, including area 5/81 railing and gate in the cobbled - area adjoining Atway Cottages GV II

Farmhouse. C17 or earlier, with later additions. Solid, roughcast walls. Wheat reed thatch roofs, with a patch of slate at north-west corner; chimneystacks in the gables, except for 2 later brick stacks on additions at north-east and south- west ends. Plan consists of a main range at right-angles to the road and a cross- wing at the rear end, projecting slightly on the south-east. Main range has one heated room in ground storey with a through-passage next to the cross-wing; latter has one heated room on the north-east, probably with a minor room behind it. Each of the 2 heated rooms has an early staircase beside the fireplace. Added wing to north-east; lean-tos, probably added, behind the older part of the house on north- west side. 2 storeys, with single-storey lean-to. Principal south-east front of main range is 2 windows wide. Ground storey has plank door to right and a single window to left; windows all have C19 2-light wood casements with 2 panes per light. Both main range and cross-wing have projecting chimneystacks of granite ashlar, with offsets and tapered tops; the cross-wing stack has an added brick shaft. To the left of each stack is a slit window lighting a staircase. The gable of main range, towards the road, has in addition a second-storey window to right of the stack, this with a C19 2-light wood casement with 2 panes per light; there is a similar window in the side-wall of the lean-to fronting the road. Gable of cross- wing has 1 window in each storey to right of stack; casements as in main range, except that the ground-storey window has transom-lights. The added north-east wing has at left-hand end a 4-panelled door with cast-iron knocker and 3-pane fanlight; above it is a wood casement as in main range. Old cobbled surface to south-east, between the farmhouse and Atway Cottages (q.v.). The C19 garden railings in this area, and the C19 iron gate fronting the road, are included in the listing. Interior: ground-storey room in main range has chamfered beam with scroll-stops. Door from passage to cross-wing has chamfered wood frame, the jambs having scroll- stops top and bottom. Ground-storey room in cross-wing has chamfered beams; large fireplace with granite jambs and wood lintel, the latter ovolo-moulded with raised run-out stops. Staircase to right of fireplace has wood door-frame with cranked head. This house and Atway Cottages (q.v.) make an excellent group fronting the Moretonhampstead Road.

Listing NGR: SX8128879047