Cider House

BUCKLAND MONACHORUM BUCKLAND ABBEY SX 46 NE 3/123 Cider House 21.3.67

GV II

House formerly barn with living accommodation at one end, may originally have formed part of the domestic buildings to the abbey. Probably late medieval, much rebuilt and altered in later C20. Stone rubble walls. Gable ended slate roof. 2 gable end rebuilt rubble stacks. Original plan unclear although pre-alteration photographs show a long barn range extending to the right with a cross wing at the left-hand end apparently housing domestic accommodation. In the later C20 a similar cross wing was built at the right-hand end which extended to the rear. The building was completely modernised internally at this stage. and now consists of a large room in each cross wing, a corridor at the front connecting the 2 which has smaller rooms to the rear. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front gabled at either end with projecting wing at right-hand end. C20 3-light casements. The left-hand gable has an arched hoodmould over the first floor window which appears to be original. Below the window is a chamfered granite 4-centred arched doorway which may be contemporary. Both features have been copied in the later right-hand gable; beyond it the wing projects. At the rear are 2 parallel projecting wings which have re-used or reconstructed mullioned windows and granite arched doorways. Interior : Much altered by the C20 modernisation,few original features visible.

Listing NGR: SX4867766834