Moor Farmhouse

HARTLAND SS 22 NE

2/142 Moor Farmhouse

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Farmhouse. Circa early C17 possibly with earlier origins, extended probably in C18 when a remodelling may have taken place. Plastered rubble and cob walls. Gable- ended thatch roof to main right-hand range with natural slate roof to left-hand part. 2 brick stacks at the gable ends and 2 axial stacks. Plan: originally probably 3-room-and-through-passage plan with lower room to the left which has fireplace in its end wall and spiral stairs in projection to the front of it. The rooms to the right of the passage were probably remodelled in the C18 the central one becoming a parlour, both heated by fireplaces in the right-hand wall. In the C18 a further heated room was added at the left-hand end of the house as a secondary kitchen and a dairy and salting room added in a rear outshot may be of a similar date. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 5-window front the left-hand end of which projects and is slate-roofed. To the left of the thatched part on the first floor are 2 paired early C19 small-paned sashes with a 12-pane sash to right of centre and later C19 6-pane sash to the far right. On the ground floor is a paired early C19 sash to right of centre and a C19 small-paned 2-light casement to the left. At the left-hand end of the thatched part is a rectangular projection for the staircase and the addition continues beyond it on the same line with a C20 12-pane sash on the first floor with an early C19 one below to left and C20 2-light casement to the rignt. Row of pigeon holes below eaves. C20 glazed porch to left of centre. Interior: good C18 paneling in room to right of passage with the chimneypiece removed. Ground floor rooms have chamfered and stopped beams. Other features may be concealed. Roof: straight principal rafters may date from the C17. The Galsworthy family of Moor Farm occupied a prominent position in Hartland from the beginning of the parish registers in 1558 and occupied Moor for at least 350 years first as customary tenants then owners. Source: The Galsworthy Family - R Pearse Chope: Hartland and West Country Chronicle, September 1915

Listing NGR: SS2638326301