Home Farm

BLACK TORRINGTON WEST CHILLA SS 40 SW

9/18 Home Farm -

GV II

Farmhouse. Early C17 possibly with earlier origins altered in C19 and C20. Rendered cob and rubble walls. Gable-ended corrugated asbestos roof, corrugated iron to attached barn. Brick stack at left gable-end, axial stone stack with tapering cap, dripmoulds and dripcourse. Plan: originally 3-room-and-through-passage plan with hall stack backing onto passage and projecting hall bay. Lower room to right rebuilt as barn in C19 possibly along tne lines of what was previously there. There are 2 small rooms at the higher end - one in front, one behind, - which are probably later subdivisions of tne inner room. Early C20 lean-to added at rear of hall and passage. In circa lid C20 the house was completely re-roofed and virtually reduced to 1 storey with the top floor made' inaccessible. Exterior: single storey. Asymmetrical 2-window front of C20 2- and 3-light casements - the right-hand one in projecting hall bay. Roof drops considerably over right-nand half incorporating barn and passage which has plank door. Barn has doorway at its right end with adjoining window and 1st floor loading hatch. Interior: hall fireplace opening is blocked. 2 chamfered ceiling beams with an arrangement of less substantial beams forming a square in front of the fireplace reputedly for hanging and smoking the bacon. Roof trusses replaced in C20 re- roofing.

Listing NGR: SS4412702189