Perry Hall Farmhouse

ST21NE STAPLE FITZPAINE CP 11/161 Perry Hall Farmhouse

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Farmhouse. C16, ceiled C17 and wing added, altered C18 and C20. Roughcast over rubble, blue lias and sandstone north-west wing, thatched roofs, hipped left, brick stack right gable end and to left of cross passage. L-plan: open hall house, ceiled to 3-cell and cross passage, door blocked on north front, inner room now a store entered from exterior, north-east wing, main entrance now at junction, land slopes steeply away to east. South front: one and a half storeys, 2 bays; all C19 and C20 casments, 2 eyebrow dormers, full height raking buttress of rubble and brick to left of small rectangular glazed stair light below eaves, plank door. Right return projecting wing with recessed entrance, wing unlit, blocked opening and 2 beam ends projecting, half hipped right return with lateral stair to left door; north face of wing unglazed 2-light octagonal mullioned window. Interior not seen said to contain stud and panel screen to cross passage with half beam against hall stack carried on brackets, moulded shelf to hall fireplace with central lateral beam resting on it. There is an arch braced true cruck with braces set behind hall stack, an "internal span of 6.7 m makes this the widest roof with a true cruck in Somerset apart from Mells barn of 6.8 m. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, September 1982; Sixsmith, Staple Fitzpaine and the Forest of Neroche, 1958).

Listing NGR: ST2706617888