Underhill House With Barn And Pigsties Adjoining To West

The following building shall be added;

LEVENS SD 48 NE Underhill House with Barn and Pigsties 1/33 adjoining to West

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Former farmhouse with adjoining barn and pigsties. Late C17/early C18, with C19 additions and alterations. House and barn wet-dashed rubble on plinth; pigsties unrendered snecked rubble with quoins. Graduated slate gable-end roof (continuous over all units) with rendered axial and external end stacks (to original house). House and barn 2 storeys; pigsties under lean-to roof at west end. Plan: The rendering obscures much of the evidence for the buildings development. Most likely a 3-room plan with baffle entry to north, the axial stack heating a kitchen/downhouse to west, and living room to east, with parlour beyond (heated by end stack and divided from living room by a partition, now removed). Combined external stair turret and pantry to north adjoining entry. A small barn west of downhouse converted in C19 to living accommodation; the large barn extension (with vehicular access to north) and pigsties C19 also. Exterior: North elevation with only 2 small windows lighting stair/pantry turret (under catslide roof); entry with modern lean-to glazed porch. Barn with tall segmentally-headed cart entrance. South elevation: scattered fenestration; original house with 2 12-pane horned sash window and one 4-pane unhorned sash window to 1st floor; ground floor with 12-pane horned sash window to either side of part-glazed C19 planed door (now in C20 conservatory); original barn conversion with one tall 4-pane horned sash window. C19 barn with re-used C17 cavetto-moulded 2-light, wood-mullioned window. Interior: principal room with stopped and chamfered ceiling beams (one with mortice holes for partition) and joists. End fireplace surround is pecked and margined with moulded mantel-shelf; C19 marble fireplace (to west room), the mantel-shelf supported by console brackets, with ornate cast-iron insert. Small late - C18 cast iron grate to 1st floor. Roof: principals with collar, ridge piece and side purlins, the main timbers chamfered in the original house.

Listing NGR: SD4853686040