Castle Dyke Farm And Attached Outbuilding And Rubblestone Wall

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8472 HIGHWEEK VILLAGE, Highweek 1012-1/5/169 (South side) 16/07/49 No.49 Castle Dyke Farm and attached outbuilding and rubblestone wall (Formerly Listed as: HIGH WEEK VILLAGE (South side) Nos.47 AND 49 Castle Dyke Farm)

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Late 16/early C17 with alterations. MATERIALS: rendered, steeply-pitched crested slate roof half-hipped to the right, tall rendered stack finished in brick to the front right. PLAN: rectangular with a projecting gabled porch to the right of centre, central hall heated by rear lateral stack and a single-storey lean-to to the front right; No.47 (qv) forms a cross wing to the left. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 2-window range. Porch has a C19 horned 6/6-pane sash window in a forward frame to the first floor. The porch below is supported at the corners by granite columns with rounded capitals now incorporated into the enclosing walls, that to the front with a plain semicircular arch. The C17 studded oak door of 3 wide planks has heavy wrought-iron strap hinges and a moulded lintel. The range to the left, attached to No.47 (qv) has C19 two-light casement windows to the ground floor and a gabled dormer. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: rubblestone wall approx 5m high attached to the front right corner extends forward approx 30m to meet on the left a frontage wall with quartz blocks to piers and on the right a C18 outbuilding adjacent to the road. Outbuilding is of uncoursed local rubble with hipped corrugated-iron roof: timber lintel over central throughway; rear elevation has doveholes beneath eaves, timber lintels over loft and window openings, doorway to stable on right. (BoE: Pevsner N & Cherry B: Devon: 1989-: 589).

Listing NGR: SX8461072016