Cider House Approximately 30 Metres North-West Of Drascombe Barton

SX 79 SW DREWSTEIGNTON

5/35 Cider house approximately 30 metres north-west of Drascombe Barton GV II

Cider house. Probably mid C17. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings, one end rebuilt in local stone rubble with large dressed granite quoins; corrugated iron roof (formerly thatch). Plan and exterior description: the building faces south. The wide doorway to right now contains a C20 door. Left of this and external flight of stone steps rise to a door to the apple loft. The roof is half-hipped to left and hipped to right. At the back are the remains of a C19 horse engine house; its roof carried on massive timber posts some of which have been replaced by granite posts. Interior: 3-bay ceiling, the right bay open to the roof. The left crossbeam is massive. It is soffit-chamfered and supported by posts with jowled heads set in the cob walls. The right crossbeam is soffit-chamfered with step stops. 3-bay roof of C17 A-frame trusses, one with its original collar halved into the principals. This cider house forms part of a group with the important farmhouse, Drascombe Barton (q.v), its garden walls (q.v) and Butterwell (q.v).

Listing NGR: SX7012292060