Eastontown is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1967. Farmhouse.
Eastontown
- WRENN ID
- leaning-pediment-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Eastontown is a farmhouse, now a house, dating back to the 16th century, with subsequent alterations including the addition of a rear dairy and an extension to the upper end in the early 20th century. The building is constructed of granite rubble, rendered at the upper end, with slate roofs. A slate-hung ridge stack is located at the former gable end to the left, another at the lower end, and a lateral stack at the rear.
Originally comprising three rooms with a through passage, the house has an axial hall stack backing onto the passage. The left-hand inner room likely had a chamber above, heated by a gable-end stack. A single-storey outshut runs along the rear of the hall and inner room, originally functioning as a dairy and probably dating to the 17th century. The lower end may have begun as a shippon (animal shelter), and the lower end wall was rebuilt in the early 20th century, at which time a one-room plan extension was added to the upper end. A straight staircase was later inserted to the right of the passage, and a projection at the rear of the lower end might have originally been a stair turret.
The upper end of the house has three windows on each floor. At the first floor, these are 20th-century 2-light casements under the eaves. The ground floor has three 3-light and one small 2-light casement windows. The right-hand lower roofline features a gabled porch with a granite 3-centred arched doorway and stable door. To the right of the porch are pigeonholes with slate perches under the eaves, and the shippon end has been converted into living accommodation in the early 20th century. The left end features a 3-light 20th-century window and a half-glazed door, along with a 6-light oriel under a slate-hung gable end. The right end has a 6-light granite window at ground floor, with a similar 5-light window and a half-hipped roof on the upper level.
The rear elevation includes a small lean-to to the left and a rebuilt wall of squared rubble. A 20th-century single-storey addition conceals the rear passage door. The original 17th-century dairy is a single-storey outshut with two 2-light and one single-light casement windows at the rear of the upper end, with the rear of the early 20th-century bay being rendered. Two small roof-lights are above the main range.
Inside, the wide passage has a rear door with a cambered granite head and an early 20th-century staircase inserted on the right. A ledged door with a granite lintel leads to the hall, which contains a blocked fireplace with a 19th-century mantel and oven, and a framed ceiling with two cross beams, one chamfered, and five axial beams. The windows have deep splayed reveals and the site of a former stair is visible to the rear right, with a hole situated to the left of the door. 19th-century shutters remain on one window. There are three steps down to the shippon end, which has been completely remodelled in the 20th century. The roof is not accessible, and retains some early principal rafters. The building forms a group with Warne's Kitchen.
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