Lower Aish Guest House

WIDECOMBE-IN- POUNDSGATE SX 77 SW THE-MOOR 6/255 Lower Aish Guest House

GV II

Guest house, formerly a farmhouse. C17 or earlier. Roughcast solid walls, probably of stone. Slated roof. Large granite chimneystack on each gable; slightly larger rendered stack on ridge, off-centre to right. Probably a 3-room and cross-passage plan with hall stack backing on to passage. 2 storeys. 4-windows wide front. All windows have 6-paned sashes with horns. Single-storeyed entrance-porch with solid walls and slated pent roof. Round-arched granite doorway, moulded and with carved spandrels, one containing the date 16-- (possibly 1653). The ground-storey front wall to left of porch has a slight pent-roofed projection. Interior not inspected. R Dymond, ed., Widecombe, 1876, p.2, says the porch bears date 1656 and initials TH. House "has remained in the Hamlyn family for at least two centuries". "In this farm house is preserved a large fragment of oak pannelling, with the familiar linen pattern". The building was badly damaged by fire in about the 1930s (information from Mrs F Wilkinson).

Listing NGR: SX7058572099