Budleigh Farmhouse

MORETONHAMPSTEAD SX 78 NE 2/76 Budleigh Farmhouse - - II

Farmhouse. C17, possibly with earlier origins. Rendered granite rubble walls. Thatched roof with gable ends. Rendered gable stacks, probably brick on stone, rear wing has projecting rendered stone gable stack. Originally a 2-room with central through-passage plan, each room heated by gable end stack, larger left-hand room was probably the kitchen until a kitchen wing was added in circa late C17 to rear of right-hand room. The right-hand end of the house appears to have been rebuilt in C18. Originally there was a newel staircase in a projection behind the gable stack of the left-hand room, this now been removed. 2 storeys, rear wing 3 storeys. 3 window roughly regular front of probably C20 3- light casements with small panes, first floor centre is 2 light. Doorway slightly to right of centre, C20 glazed door beneath rustic timber porch supported on posts. To right of first floor centre is break in stonework where rebuilding occurred. At rear of left-hand room is rectangular stair projecting adjoining stack with window on gable end. Interior contains only a few early features. Left-hand room has roughly chamfered cross beam forked at the rear wall end. Fireplace has chamfered wooden lintel with hollow step stops and brick oven in right-hand side. Probably early C18 pegged roof with collars set into straight principals.

Listing NGR: SX7637585641