Flaxdrayton Farmhouse

SOUTH PETHERTON CP ST41NE DRAYTON 3/102 Flaxdrayton Farmhouse (formerly listed as Drayton Farmhouse)

19.4.61

GV II

Detached farmhouse. Probably late C17, but soon rebuilt after fire, and modified. Ham stone ashlar; welsh slate roof between high coped gables suggesting former thatch; brick end chimney sticks. Two storeys with attic and basement, 3-bay south-east elevation, at right angles to road. Plinth: hollow-chamfer mullioned windows in chamfered recesses with unworked top mitres, individual labels, but on front elevation the former 4-and 3-light windows have had 2 mullions removed, so that the outer bays have pairs of casements and the upper centre a 3-light horizontal-bar casement; to lower centre bay a C20 boarded door in cambered archway with incised spandrils in deep lintel with label. North-west gable has attic and first floor windows of 2 lights, mullions intact; also a single-storey extension with plain clay tiled roof and further lean-to on south side; single-light attic window to south-east gable. Interior not seen, but reported are many indications of fire damage; two room x 2 room plan, central passage not a throughway because of change of levels; beams with small chamfers and step and runout stops; kitchen fireplace with cambered-arched beam, oven and traces of bacon curing chamber; tusk-tenoned roof frame possibly of later date than the rebuilding which was presumably in early C18. (VAG Report, unpublished SR0, July 1980).

Listing NGR: ST4522315904