Perry Farmhouse

SX 88 NE 3/134 11.11.52

DODDISCOMBSLEIGH PERRY LANE, Doddiscombsleigh Perry Farmhouse

GV II

Former farmhouse. C17, probably a remodelling and extension of an earlier house. Whitewashed rendered stone ; thatched roof with plain ridge, gabled at ends ; left end stack and axial stack. Plan: The present arrangement is a 4 room and through passage plan with 2 unheated service rooms at the right end, 2 heated rooms at the left end and a 2 storey projection on the front off the heated room adjacent to the passage. The extreme right end room is a former dairy, absorbed into the house and a thick crosswell between the 2 heated rooms suggests that the original arrangement may have been 2 rooms and a through passage, the left end room ann addition contemporary with a general remodelling of the house providing a large parlour. The projection may have been a stair projection, a winder stair rises at the rear of the left-hand room and a straight stair at the rear of the heated room adjacent to the passage. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2:1:1 window front (one window to the projection), the 2 left-hand first floor windows gabled dormers. Wide C19 plank front door to passage to right of centre, second entrance with a half-glazed thatched porch at extreme left. Attractive set of probably early C19 iron-framed casements with iron glazing bars ; timber casements to the projection and to the ground floor right. The rear elevation has a rear door to the through passage, 1 first floor iron-frame window with iron glazing bars and 2 small ground floor windows : this elevation is blind to the right of the rear through passage door. Interior: The right hand heated room has a stack backing on to the passage with stone monolith jambs, a chamfered stopped timber lintel and dismantled bread oven ; Axial ceiling beam with step nick stops. The left hand room has a fireplace with a chamfered stopped lintel and ashlar stone jambs, the fireplace partly filled in with stone rubble ; the axial ceiling beam is chamfered. Several modern partition walls on the first floor. Roof: No access to roof at time of survey ; principal rafters are straight. Group value with adjacent barn.

Listing NGR: SX8598686747