Westhill Farmhouse

SAMPFORD COURTENAY SX 69 NW 8/164 Westhill Farmhouse II Farmhouse. Early C17 modernised in later C20. Rendered, mainly cob walls with some rubble. Asbestos slate roof gabled to left, hipped to right. 2 axial brick stacks. C20 projecting lateral stack to rear. Plan: unusual plan of 4 rooms in a row - the right-hand one for storage purposes with external access - with a cross entry (rather than separate passage) through the centre right-hand room; integral dairy behind the room to its left which was the hall. Hall stack backs onto entry. Room to its right with entry through it was probably the kitchen. Unheated inner room at left-hand end. The store room at the right-hand end had access only to the yard on the 1st floor. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front with lower C19 addition at left- hand end. Late C20 small-paned 3-light casements with small gable over 1st floor window to left of centre. Right-hand part of house has lower roof line. Leanto addition to rear at right of centre with glazed door. Interior: kitchen has granite framed fireplace, chamfered, with pyramid stops to jambs. Hall has similar fireplace. Adjoining it at the rear is a short section of plank and muntin screen. The rear partition to the dairy is of studs, grooved for flush plaster, with a cranked head door frame. There is a similar 1st floor partition above. Hall has framed ceiling of chamfered beams with bar and step stops at the intersections. Roof: one face-pegged clean jointed cruck survives over the hall. Source: Report by N W Alcock.

Listing NGR: SX6169797774