Lower Langdon Farmhouse

NORTH BOVEY SX 78 SW 4/202 Lower Langdon Farmhouse - GV II

Farmhouse, originally longhouse. Probably late C16/early C17, with later outshuts and considerably modernised in C20. Granite rubble walls with later C20 granite rubble rear lateral stack to lower end. Projecting granite rubble stack with offsets to higher gable end. Rendered axial stack, probably stone, to right of centre. Thatched roof, gabled to right, higher end, dropping sharply to lower end where it is hipped. Longhouse plan with shippon to lower side of through passage and hall above with fireplace backing onto passage, then inner room which is heated. At a later stage probably in C18 either the front of the hall and lower end was built out or else the front wall of the inner room was rebuilt and recessed from the rest of the house facade. 3 adjoining outshuts built along rear wall probably at various stages from C18 - early C20. Shippon converted in C20 within living memory and interior of house greatly altered and modernised. 2 storeys. The house is aligned down the slope of the hill. Asymmetyrical 5-window front with door to left of centre. Windows to left of door all 2-light C20 casements without glazing bars, the ground floor one immediately to the left of the porch was originally a doorway. Blocked granite framed ventilation slit on ground floor towards left-hand end. The windows above and to the right of the porch and door are 3-light probably early C20 casements with glazing bars except that above the porch which is 2-light, and the ground floor right of centre which is late C20 2-light with no glazing bars. The face of the inner room wall to the right is recessed. C20 plank part glazed door with C20 wide open fronted lean-to porch which has thatched roof supported on granite rubble side wall each fronted by a monolithic granite upright. To rear are 3 adjoining granite rubble outshuts with corrugated asbestos roofs. Interior: the basic plan is preserved although the shippon has been converted. The original fireplaces no larger survive and the whole has been considerably modernised. Roof space not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX7230182827