Lorna Doone Farmhouse At Ss 7918 4776

BRENDON MALMSEAD SS 74 NE 4/11 Lorna Doone Farmhouse at SS 7918 - 4776 GV II Farmhouse, latterly 2 cottages, now house. Early to mid C17, partly rebuilt or extended in the C18, and further remodelled probably in the late C19. Partly reroofed in the late C20. Rendered stone. Slate roofs, slightly higher part to south, formerly thatched. Plan and development: 3-room plan, facing east. C17 two-room plan to left-hand consisting of hall to right with slate-hung external lateral stack to rear and left-hand room with partly-rendered external stone end stack. Addition or rebuilding of former third room to right consisting of part to left incorporated into hall with stack to right and third room to right with external end stack. Later staircases. 2 storeys. Exterior: 5 windows to first floor and 4 to ground floor, mainly C19 2 and 3-light wooden casements. C20 half-glazed door between first and second windows from left with C20 lean-to porch and C20 half-glazed door to right with C20 lean-to porch. One storey lean-to addition at rear. Interior: much altered. Central ground floor room with chamfered cross beams that to centre with scroll stops. Right-hand beam in line with former end wall of C17 house. Fireplace to rear with old wooden lintel. Inserted fireplace to right. Roof mainly C20. This is one of 2 former farmhouses (q.v) sited close together by Badgworthy Water. E.H.D. Williams and R. G. Gilson, Report on Lorna Doone Farm (1979).

Listing NGR: SS7917547758