Shippon About 400 Metres West South West Of Clampitt House

CHRISTOW SX 88 SW 5/141 Shippon about 400 metres west south west of Clampitt House. II Shippon. Probably C16 or C17. Granite rubble. Gable-ended roof clad in corrugated iron sheets. Plan: Rectangular on plan with doorway at centre of west front. Exterior: Formerly 2 storeys. Almost symmetrical west front with central doorway with chamfered wooden frame and unchamfered wooden lintel. To left and right small windows with wooden lintels. Two cruck posts are exposed on the front wall. Left doorway in south gable end. Interior: half doorway removed but 2 cross-beams remain , one roughly chamfered. 3-bay roof with 2 cruck trusses intact, the north a raised cruck truss, its tenoned collar removed; the south is a side-pegged jointed cruck truss with a tenoned collar. The purlins and common rafters are missing.

Listing NGR: SX8104984500