Palmer'S Farm

SOURTON SOURTON SX 59 SW

8/139 Palmer's Farm

GV II

Farmhouse. Circa late C17 with C18 attached barn and C19 additions. Rendered stone rubble and cob walls. Wood shingle roof gabled to left end and hipped to right. Barn extension has gable ended corrugated iron roof. Large central axial stack of rendered rubble. Originally 2 or 3 room plan with 2 larger rooms both heated by a central axial stack with back to back fireplaces, and a small unheated service room at the left end through which the house is entered. Stairs at rear of stack probably in original position. Probably C18 barn added at left-hand end. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2 window front of C20 casements - of 2-lights and 5-lights to left and right on the 1st floor and 3-lights and 1-light on the ground floor. To the left on the ground floor is a C20 plank door. An early C19 outshut is built against the front wall to the right-hand side with a similar outshut at the centre on the rear elevation. The barn attached at the left end is lower. To the right on the ground floor it retains a probably C18 timber window with central chamfered mullion and wooden stanchion bar. Plank door to its left beyond which is 2-light C19 timber window with square section mullion. 1st floor window to right of centre. Interior: the central room has a fireplace with a chamfered wooden lintel which has run-out stops. The cross beams in this room are insubstantial and lightly chamfered with run-out stops. On the left side of the fireplace is a built-in original settle which has a decorative finial to its arm-rest. Between the central room and the small service room is a stud and boarded partition with a head beam which is chamfered on the side of the larger room This small farmhouse retains a number of its original simple internal features and is relatively unaltered.

Listing NGR: SX5333790147