West Chapple Farmhouse And Cider House Adjoining To South East

West Chapple Farmhouse and cider house is an early 17th-century farmhouse with an 19th-century addition, located in Winkleigh. The farmhouse is largely constructed of rendered cob and rubble walls, with a gable-ended slate roof and corrugated iron on the cider house. It has a brick axial stack and a rendered brick stack at the right gable end.

The house is divided into two distinct sections: the two rooms on the right are from the early 17th century, while the two rooms on the left are from the 19th century, joined to the right of an axial stack that serves the two central rooms. Evidence suggests the 19th-century range is a rebuilding of earlier fabric, now comprising a kitchen with a small dairy and salting room to the left. The earlier room to their right was likely the hall of the 17th-century house, with a parlour beyond it, which underwent remodelling in the late 17th century. A 17th-century cider house is situated at right angles to the left end of the 19th-century range, projecting to the rear, and is divided into two rooms internally.

The front elevation is asymmetrical, with five windows. The right-hand half is slightly lower, featuring a 3-light early 20th-century casement on the first floor and a 19th-century 4-panel door below. Late 19th- or early 20th-century 1- and 2-light small-paned casements are found on the left-hand half, with a 20th-century open-fronted porch to the left of centre, concealing a 19th-century plank door. A lower outbuilding adjoins the left-hand end. The rear elevation projects slightly to the right-hand side.

The rear elevation is mainly composed of 19th- and 20th-century casements, but on the first floor towards the left-hand end, there is a late 17th-century 2-light mullioned and transomed wooden window. A small 20th-century porch is located towards the right-hand end, with a plank door behind. The cider house projects from the right end of the house, displaying two 17th-century chamfered wooden mullion windows on the inner face. These windows have a 4-light on the first floor and a 2-light below, with a plank door to their right.

Inside the house, the former hall has a 17th-century framed ceiling of moulded beams forming six panels. The fireplace is rebuilt, and the right-hand room has a late 17th-century bolection moulded wooden fireplace surround. A surviving rear blade of an original roof truss, which was probably a principal with a curved foot, features threaded purlins and mortices for a collar, but doesn't appear to be smokeblackened. The left-hand end of the house has a 19th-century fireplace and ceiling beam, and the dairy retains its slate shelves and a large granite salting trough.

The cider house’s interior preserves a wooden cider press in its right-hand room, which has a two-story height. The left-hand room has a chamfered ceiling beam forked at the front, with two original roof trusses remaining consisting of straight principals with trenched purlins and lapped collars.