Little Buckland

BUCKLAND - SP 03 NE 2/2 Little Buckland II Former farmhouse, now house. Said to be 1720, altered C19, C20. Coursed, squared stone, stone slate roof. U plan, wings and centre 2 rooms each, 1 room deep, centre later infilled, 2 1/2 storeys. Garden front, flat; plinth; door slightly right of centre, half- glazed with 4 octagonal panes: timber lintel. To right 2-light wooden mullion and transom window, flat hood, stone voussoirs; blocked opening to right, stone voussoirs. To left of door 3-light wooden mullion and transom with timber lintel encroaching on half blocked opening to left with stone voussoirs. To left 3-light mid C20 metal window, concrete lintel. First floor, three 2-light wooden casement windows, iron opening lights, flat heads, stone voussoirs: to right 2-light mid C20 metal casement. Above, gable ends to cross wings each end, parapet gables, cross gablet saddles; right gable 2-light casements, stone voussoirs, left 3-light mid C20 metal casement, voussoirs for original, narrower window. Tall, ashlar chimneys rise from inner base of both gables, moulded string course and cap. Between gables 2 hipped dormers, 2-light casements. On left return 2 stone gables, one with chimney on ridge, moulded cap. On left end of garden front projecting mid C20 wing; 5-light metal casement, concrete lintel, ground floor, 4- light metal mullion and transom above, parapet gable. Interior: centre room garden front chequerboard stone paving, wide fireplace, timber lintel, 6-panelled doors, brass latches. On left eared pine fireplace surround with moulded edge to shelf surround moved from elsewhere in house: small cupboard recess in wall on right. On right early C19 panelled shutters. First floor left exposed timber post, 'EM / IR / 17.. / RS' painted on it. Two original boarded doors in attics; collar and tie-beam trusses, one pair purlins, no ridge member.

Listing NGR: SP0725036639