Warren Farmhouse

HIGHAMPTON SS 40 SE 5/99 Warren Farmhouse - - II Farmhouse. C17 with C19 additions. Rendered cob and rubble walls. Gable ended corrugated asbestos roof, slate to right-hand end and rear wing. 4 axial rendered stacks. Plan: 4-room-and-through-passage plan but lower end to left consists of only a very small service room beyond which is a barn or shippon which may be integral. It is possible that the right-hand end room, probably a kitchen, is a later C17 or early C18 extension. Axial hall stack backs onto passage. Beyond the kitchen is a mid- late C19 L-shaped addition extending to the rear, probably forming a separate cottage when it was built. Exterior: 2 storeys. Long asymmetrical 5-window front, right-hand end is C19 addition. C20 3-light casements to centre section with 2-light small-paned casement to right of centre on first floor and two late C20 2-light casements beyond. C20 plank door towards left-hand end of house with C19 2-light dairy window to its left and shallow rectangular projection to its right. To right0 of centre is C20 leanto with 2 plank doors. C19 addition has gabled porch. Barn at left-hand end has doorway to right with loading hatch above and 2 slits on ground floor to its left. Interior: central room has chamfered axial beam. Hall fireplace has chamfered granite jambs and roughly chamfered wooden lintel. Cloam oven in side. Roof consists of C19 insubstantial straight principal rafters.

Listing NGR: SS4954403409