Nethercott Farmhouse

SX 39 NE TETCOTT NETHERCOTT

3/58 Nethercott Farmhouse -

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Farmhouse. C17 origins, C19 addition, C20 alterations. Whitewashed rendered cob on stone rubble footings, corrugated iron roof over thatch, gabled at ends, 1 axial stack, 1 right end stack. C19 wing stone rubble with brick dressings and slate roof. The original plan is not clear but may have been a 3 room and passage-plan with a 2- storey porch, the hall stack backing on to the passage, a 2-storey gabled bay to the hall and a heated inner room. The lower end has been truncated and the ground floor of the lower end is used for storage. The present entrance is in the left return of the 2-storey hall bay. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front with 2 short gabled projections to the front. A sloping asbestos canopy between the projections forms a porch to the front door in the left return of the right-hand projection. Most of the fenestration is circa late C19/early C20 2-, 3- and 4-light casements with glazing bars, first floor window right is an earlier C19 2-light casement, 12 panes per light. Interior Thoroughly modernized in the late C20 with C20 grates. Roof trusses mostly replaced in the C20, C19 joinery.

Listing NGR: SX3531996435