Ash Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1986. Farmhouse.

Ash Farmhouse

WRENN ID
veiled-span-cedar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Exmoor National Park
Country
England
Date first listed
2 January 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Source
Historic England listing

Description

_ SS84NW PORLOCK CP 2/42 Ash Farmhouse

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  • II

Farmhouse. C16-C17, altered late C19-early C20. Roughcast over rubble and cob, slate roofs, large lateral stack to right of entrance with bread oven projection, lateral stack end bay left and rising from eaves on wing. L-plan: possible longhouse extended subsequently to 3-cell and cross passage with addition north end, north-east farmbuildings abutting, and south-east wing. One and a half storeys, 2:2 bays, all early C20 casements, 2 dormers left, one right flanking lateral stack, ground floor single storey addition left of entrance beside stack, 2 windows under wooden lintels to right; C19 extension of loft over byre, 3 semi-circular headed openings, central one larger. South gable end, irregular plinth indicating rebuilding of possible agricultural end of farmhouse. Interior: chamfered beams with scroll stops to central room heated by lateral stack, modern grate, very wide through passage now blocked by inserted stair, original cob wall visible in roof space, trusses renewed early C20, part of jointed cruck visible. This is generally believed to be the farm at which Samuel Taylor Coleridge was living when his composition of Kubla Khan was interrupted by the visit from 'the man from Porlock".

Listing NGR: SS8423747815

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