Bowden Farmhouse

BUCKLAND-IN-THE-MOOR SX 77 NW 6/36 Bowden Farmhouse 23.8.55 GV II*

Longhouse. Late medieval with additions. Granite rubble. Slated roof, half-hipped at right-hand end; front slope of roof of house part thatched. Granite chimney with thatch weatherings and tapered top on centre of ridge. Old chimney with thatch weatherings on left-hand gable. C18 granite chimney with attached brick shaft in rear wall, off centre to right. Plan has through-passage with hall and inner room to left, kitchen and shippon to right; the kitchen clearly occupies one end of the original shippon. Hall fireplace backs on to through-passage; kitchen fireplace is in rear wall. C18 or C19 entrance porch with chamfer over. 2 storey, with single- storey additions. House part is 3 windows wide; C20 wood and metal casements without glazing bars. Entrance-porch is gabled with decorative slate-hanging on the verges; shouldered-head wood inner doorway, probably medieval encased in C19 panels. To left of porch a shallow rectangular projection with pent roof, possibly a former stair turret. Shippon to right has 2 ventilation slits, the left-hand slit blocked to insert kitchen. Lean-to linhay, its posts now infilled with stone rubble, in front of left-hand side of shippon. Projecting at right-angles from right-hand side a range of pigsties. Interior has preserved its C19 atmosphere remarkably well, with most of the old plaster wall-surfaces; few early features exposed, although these are likely to exist. Roof trusses have short curved feet; roof space not accessible.

Listing NGR: SX7269873673