Lower Corscombe

SAMPFORD COURTENAY SX 69 NW 8/148 Lower Corscombe GV II

House, formerly farmhouse. C17 witn C19 addition. Rendered cob and stone rubble walls. Gable ended slate roof. Axial stone rubble stack and rendered brick stack at left gable end. Plan: 3-room and through passage plan with lower end to the left, hall stack backs onto passage. Inner and lower room fireplaces inserted in C19. the inner room may have been partly rebuilt at this time as its front wall projects slightly. Also in C19 an outshut was added along the rear wall and an outbuilding extending from the left-hand end. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front of C20 small-paned 3-light casements. C20 stable type door to left of centre. Right-hand side of house projects slightly. Lower barn/shippon attached at left-hand end. Interior: open fireplace in hall has chamfered wooden lintel with granite jamb to right, stone and brick oven in left-hand side and a floor of slates set on edge. Over the window is a re-used chamfered beam with square mortices in its soffit. Small C18 wall cupboard with fielded panel door. Only insubstantial roof timbers which are probably C19.

Listing NGR: SX6192996138