Sweaton Farmhouse, Including Garden Walls And Gate Piers

WIDECOMBE-IN- PONSWORTHY SX 77 SW THE-MOOR 6/247 Sweaton Farmhouse, including 23.8.55 garden wall and gate piers

GV II

Farmhouse. C16 or C17, with later additions; right-hand end rebuilt C18 or early C19. Granite rubble. Roofs thatched, except for an added slated range projecting from the left-hand end of front wall. Large granite ashlar chimneystack on left- hand gable; 2 similar but smaller stacks at either end of the rebuilt right-hand section. 3-room and through-passage plan, with hall stack backing on to passage; lower end rebuilt as a parlour. The inner room is very large, and may have been a kitchen at one time. 2 storeys, with single-storey additions at front and rear. 4 windows wide. Old house part is 2 windows wide with 3-light C19 wood casements having 3 panes per light. Rebuilt lower end has 8-paned sashes; door in left-hand bay is C20 with older thatched hood on shaped wood brackets. To left of it an added stone lean-to. At right-angles to the left-hand end of old house part a narrow, 2- storeyed service-wing. In front of the rebuilt parlour end a low granite rubble garden wall with 2 slender granite gate piers with ball finials. Interior has few features. Hall fireplace rebuilt in C20. Large inner room fireplace with plain granite lintel; this room has upper-floor joists running from front to back wall, those at the hall end chamfered. At rear of hall a stair turret with winding granite staircase. Roof-structure includes 2 trusses with principal rafters having short curved feet. The farmyard contains some well-preserved buildings of good quality, including a barn, pigsty and shippon that are separately listed.

Listing NGR: SX7003873632