Thorne Widger Farmhouse And Attached Wall And Barn

SS41NW 10/76

BUCKLAND BREWER Thorne Widger Farmhouse and attached wall and barn

GV. II

Farmhouse. Late C16/early C17 with mid C19 alterations and extension. Roughcast over coursed slatestone rubble; gabled slate roof; brick end stacks. 3-unit plan. 2 storeys; 4-window range. Central porch has late C19 six-panelled (2 glazed) door. Flat rendered arches over late C19 two to 3-light casements. Mid C19 extensions of similar materials attached to rear left. Interior: boxed beam and open fireplace with pot hooks in ground-floor room on right; central room, former hall, has blocked fireplace and cavetto and ovolo-moulded beams; C19 plank and panelled doors; room to left and first floor not inspected but likely to be of interest. Subsidiary features: outshut which acts as porch abuts wall of coursed slatestone rubble to right, which is attached to an early C19 barn of coursed slatestone rubble with a gabled slate roof; central threshing floor has plank double doors, with strap hinges flanked by projecting cheeks with Welsh slate roof; entry is flanked by C20 outshut with corrugated iron roof and a C19 outshut with pantile roof; polygonal wheel house to left, partly rebuilt in breeze block. Interior: A-frame trusses with pegged collars and notched apexes.

Listing NGR: SS4202916422