Unoccupied Farmhouse At Pepperdon

MORETONHAMPSTEAD SX 78 NE 2/95 Unoccupied farmhouse at Pepperdon - - II

Unoccupied farmhouse. Probably C16 with C17 alterations, remodelled in C19. Granite rubble walls rendered at front. Slate roof with gable ends. Granite rubble projecting lateral stack at rear with brick shaft. 2 other C19 brick stacks, lateral one at front and corner stack to right-hand side. Plan somewhat obscured by C19 alterations, originally appears to have been 3-room- and-through-passage with a window bay built out on front of hall and inner room probably in early C17 and lateral stack with adjoining stair projection of a similar date at the rear of the hall and part of the inner room. Unheated inner room. In C19 passage widened onto lower side and turned into stair hall and lower end rebuilt as Victorian parlour. Abandoned in mid C20. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front with porch and doorway to left of centre. First floor window to left of centre is C19 2-light casement with small panes. To the right of the porch the wall projects in a shallow bay for hall and most of inner room. On the left side of this projection on both ground and first floors is a stone mullion window, 4-light to ground floor and 3 to first floor, hollow chamfer to mullions and continuous dripcourse above each which extends to the right although those 2 windows have been replaced by C19 2-light casements. At rear is projecting stack to left of centre with rectangular stair projection to its left. Ground floor window to right of centre has been partially blocked. Interior is in very poor state of repair and most of what can be seen dates from C19 modernisation. The hall fireplace is blocked but the end of a wooden lintel can be seen. There is one chamfered axial beam in the hall. Neither the original roof timbers nor the C17 stairs have survived. At present the house is derelict.

Listing NGR: SX7745485180