Lower Grinacombe Farmhouse

BROADWOODWIDGER SX 49 SW 6/36 Lower Grinacombe Farmhouse - II Farmhouse. Circa late C17 core, minor alterations of the C19. Whitewashed rendered cob, probably on stone rubble footings, asbestos slate roof (formerly thatched) gabled at ends. Rendered stack with brick shaft at left end, rendered axial stack with brick shaft. 3 room and through passage plan with the hall stack backing on to the passage, a heated lower end room and an unheated inner room. The house appears to have been turned round and is now entered through what was the C17 rear. The former front of the hall projects slightly under a catslide roof, the projection may be C18. A front right single-storey lean-to adjoins the hall and inner room at the former rear left, the left return of the lean-to is cob, the rest is brick and presumably a C19 extension or rebuild of earlier small service rooms. The unheated inner room was formerly in use as a woodstore with apple loft over. In the early C19 a small fireplace was inserted in the passage into the hall stack. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window garden front (the C17 rear) with the passage doorway immmediately to the left of the lean-to. The left end has regular fenestration of circa late C19 4-pane sashes. 2 gabled dormers above the lean-to are circa late C19 with 2-light casements, 3 panes per light. There is a second entrance into the lean-to to the left of a 3-light casement, 8 panes per light under a timber lintel. 2 blocked windows to the right in the lean-to have timber lintels. The C17 front elevation has 2- and 3-light casement windows with glazing bars, the ground floor window left, lighting the hall is probably a late C18 3-light casement, 8 panes per light. The hall projection rises as a flush gabled dormer, pigeon holes with flight ledges to the left of the dormer. Interior The through passage plan survives. The hall fireplace is C20, probably concealing earlier jambs and a lintel, the stairs rise within the hall projection. The hall has a boxed-in ceiling beam and a bench against the right-hand wall with a panelled back, circa late C19, with painted graining. A second stair in the inner room is a mid C20 replacement of an earlier stair. The lower end fireplace is C20 and may conceal earlier jambs and lintel. A collar rafter roof, probably late C18/early C19 has been adapted when the thatch was replaced with slate. Internally the house is very unaltered since the late C19.

Listing NGR: SX4206591762