Whites Farmhouse

ASHWATER LANGAFORD SW 49 NW 4/22 Whites Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. C17 core, C18 and C19 alterations. Whitewashed rendered cob on stone rubble footings, slate roof gabled at ends, projecting stack at left end, 2 axial stack. Plan: the original plan was probably 3 room and through or cross passage with the hall stack backing on to the passage. A gabled projection to the front of the hall may have contained the stair or served as a projecting bay for the hall window. Service rooms in a single-storey cob lean-to at the rear are probably an C18 addition. The house has been remodelled and extended on either side of the hall. The present entrance, to the right of the hall stack leads directly into a stair hall and the lower end consists of 1 heated room and a small unheated storage room originally with separate access from outside. At the inner end of the hall there are now 2 rooms, a former pantry immediately to the left of the hall and a heated parlour at the left end of the range accessible via a passage to the rear of the pantry. The eaves have been raised and the thatched roof replaced with asbestos slates. 2 storeys. Long asymmetrical 5-window front with a small gabled projection to the front approximately in the centre and a C20 single-storey glazed lean-to on the front at the right, front door immediately to the right of the central axial stack and probably in the position of the former through passage doorway. Late C19 fenestration of 2- and 3-light casements with glazing bars. Interior The hall fireplace has been partly blocked in the early C20, earlier jambs and lintel said to be concealed behind, ceiling beams plastered over china cupboards to both hall and parlour. Late C19 stair with turned balusters, modern roof trusses. Whites is one of 3 farms sited in a hamlet which is similar to a Cornish townsplace.

Listing NGR: SX4144499405