Wall With Entrance And Attached Outbuildings To South Of West Challacombe Manor

The following buildings shall be added:-

COMBE MARTIN WEST CHALLACOMBE LANE SS 54 NE 1544-0/1/10000 Outbuilding to SE of West Challacombe Manor GV II Outbuilding. C15, truncated and altered in C19. Built of local coursed rubble stone, with slate roof. North gable wall built on bedrock. Lean-to has corrugated iron roof. EXTERIOR: 2-storey outbuilding attached to one-storey lean-to with timber lintels over openings. PLAN: 2 bays remaining (in outbuilding to north) of 7-bay building running north-south; south gable wall of outbuilding is not tied in and is probably a C19 insertion; lean-to to south is built onto rest of remaining east wall. INTERIOR: one raised cruck truss surviving with feet of blades just below loft level, set on wooden pads in the walls; small square yoke tenoned and pegged into blades. Collar cranked and pegged with carpenter's mark III on blade and collar. C19/C20 purlins; rafters and ridge. Remains of truss blade and pad in east wall where inserted south gable meets east wall. Four more pads with infill where blades would have been survive in the east wall under lean-to. Included for its group value, retention of C15 fabric and relationship to the C15 manor house (qv). A fragmentary but rare example of a C15 outbuilding surviving on a small manor house complex, grouping with the wall and entrance (qv) of the same date.

Listing NGR: SS5866047545