Neadon Farmhouse

MANATON SX 77 NE 5/38 - Neadon Farmhouse GV II

Farmhouse. Probably early C19 remodelling of C18 house, possibly with C17 origins. Granite rubble walls lightly rendered. C20 interlocking concrete tile roof with gable ends and deep eaves. C20 brick chimney stacks, old drip-course shows at base of left end shaft. Double depth plan of 3 rooms and stair-hall between left and centre rooms, with small service rooms at rear. Right hand end appears to be kitchen with single room dairy wing behind. Gable stack at either end and 1 axial stack. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3 windows to left plus wider spaced window to right. 16- pane sashes without horns, early C19; ground and first floor right and ground floor right of centre replaced by facsimiles with horns. At centre of 3-window section is round-headed doorway containing C20 plank door and above it is a fanlight with restored radial glazing bars. Range of various C19 and C20 casements at rear asymmetrically placed. Dairy has low-pitched gable-ended roof. Small openings in apex of each gable. Interior: much early C19 joinery survives : Open well staircase at rear of entry hall with wreathed handrail, stick balustrades and turned newels, some of which have small finials. Panelled doors and contemporary architraves survive but chimneypieces have been removed. Some doors are fielded panelled and may be C18. At service end are old plank doors with spear-headed hinges. Early C19 pegged roof. Re-used in a chimney stack in the roof-space is a C17 ovolo-moulded beam suggesting earlier origin to the house.

Listing NGR: SX7505482468