West Middleton Farmhouse Including Attached Stable Range At South East End

PARRACOMBE SS 64 NW 2/118 West Middleton Farmhouse - including attached stable range at south-east end. II Farmhouse with stable range attched. Farmhouse C17, remodelled and roof raised in C19. Stable range probably early C19. Rendered stone rubble and some C17 or early C18 brick to porch, stack and some internal partitions. Slate roof with gable ends. C19 brick stack at right gable end, and C17 or early C18 brick stack to left hipped end. Demolished rear lateral hall stack. Originally 3 room-and-through-passage-plan. Lower end to left with lower roof level, with inserted C20 staircase. Late C17 or early C18 brick partitions to each side of through-passage with 2-storey front porch added at same time. Doorway through to hall infilled in C20. In C19 the roof over through-passage, hall and inner room was raised and the hall formerly heated by rear lateral stack and inner room altered internally. The hall was partitioned at the upper end to create a cross-passge between it and the inner room, and a gabled stair turret added at the rear. The original stairs were housed in a projecting turret to the left of the hall stack. In C20 the hall was partitioned again at the lower end to create a further cross-passage, adjacent to the original through-passage. The overall remodelled plan therefore is lower end with lean-to scullery at left end and dairy outshut to rear, original through-passage, cross-passage, hall, cross-passage, inner room. The stable range projects at right angles from left lower end forming overall L-shaped plan. 2 storeys. 4 window range in all. C20 fenestration to lower end with large ground floor 4-light casement with slate drip. Gabled brick porch with slate-capped seats to each side and C17 straight-headed ovolo-moulded inner door with weathered stops. Original plank door with scratch-moulded cover strips. Chamfered surround to rear through-passage doorway with old ledged plank door. To right of porch, the C19 remodelling attempted a symmetrical disposition of openings with 3 sashes with margin glazing bars above two similar windows flanking gabled slate roof to porch with C20 door. C20 lean-to porch inserted in angle of two-storey porch to left. Stable range symmetrical with loft door reached by external stone steps over doorway flanked by small window openings with timber lintels. Interior: ovolo-moulded surround to lower end/through-passage doorway. Wide unstopped chamfered cross ceiling beam to lower end. Fireplace blocked. Hall has chamfered hollow-step stopped cross ceiling beams. Dressed stone jambs to fireplace, lintel replaced. No ceiling beams to inner room. Roof structure over lower end apparently replaced also in C19. Flagstone floor to through-passage.

Listing NGR: SS6477545912