Crablake Farm And Garden Walls To The East

EXMINSTER SX 98 NW

4/25 Crablake Farm and garden walls to - to the east

GV II

Farmhouse and garden walls. Early C19, possibly with an earlier core, stone and brick, cement rendered; slate roofs gabled at ends; rendered end stacks with platbands on shafts. Main range with rear left and right wings forming an overall U plan. The main range has 2 principal rooms, heated from gable end stacks, on either side of a central stair hall with an open well stair. A rear corridor in a single-storey lean to links the principal rooms in the main range with the rear left and right wings and acts as a service corridor to the kitchen, which is the rear right wing. 2 entrances: 1 central to the main range leading into the stair hall, a second on the right end of the main range in the angle between the main range and kitchen wing. The exterior of the house is consistent with a circa 1845 date (dated farmbuilding) but the stair could be late C18 and the house refronted in the early C19. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front with central gabled porch with deep eaves and a chamfered arched outer doorway with a plank door with strap hinges. The windows have eared lugged architraves: 3 first floor 2-light casements, 2 panes per light; outer ground floor windows 4-light and transomed with 2 panes below the transom; 1-light windows flanking porch, similarly transomed. The kitchen wing, adjacent to the farm lane, has similar windows, the rear left wing has a glazed verandah on the outer long side. Interior: Joinery includes a good open well stair with stick balusters and a ramped wreathed handrail. Ground floor room left has a Devon marble chimney-piece and a ceiling rose. Stone rubble walls to garden in front of house included for group value.

Listing NGR: SX9455186225