Whiteabury Farmhouse

SX 78 NW 4/102

CHAGFORD Whiteabury Farmhouse

GV II

House, former farmhouse. Late C18-early C19, possibly earlier core, thoroughly renovated in mid C20. Plastered granite stone rubble; granite stacks with plastered brick chimney shafts; thatch roof, slate roof to dairy. Plan: 3-room-and-through-passage plan house facing east. At the left (southern) end is a large parlour with a rear lateral stack and it projects forward a little to the front. The through passage alongside contains the staircase. 2 rooms to right with axial stack between serving back-to-back fireplaces. The left end room was formerly the kitchen and once had a service winder stair rising alongside. To rear of the left end is a possibly secondary dairy, now the kitchen and larder. 2 storeys. Exterior: regular one 3-window front of mostly original 16-pane sashes and including one replacement 20-pane horned sash. Front door is to left of the main section. It contains a late C18-early C19 6-fielded panel door behind a C20 gabled and thatch- roofed porch on rustic posts. Roof is gable-ended to right and hipped to left. Left end has a 16-pane sash each floor. Dairy has C20 horned sashes. Interior contains some original joinery detail but much was replaced in mid C20. The chimneypieces, staircase and roof structure are all mid C20.

Listing NGR: SX7193388640