Pye Corner Farmhouse

ST51SW ODCOMBE CP CAMP ROAD (South side) 5/238 Pye Corner Farmhouse 19.4.61 GV II Detached farm house. C18 and C19. Ham stone roughly cut and squared, ashlar dressings; plain clay tiled roof over stone slate base courses between stepped coped gables; brick end and intermediate chimney stacks. Two storeys, 5 bays, of which bays 1 and 2 are probably a C19 extension. Plain mullioned windows with slight chamfers to bays 1 and 2, 2-light with horizontal bar casements inserted; blocked doorway between lower windows and straight joint to right of bay 2; bays 3 and 5 have 2-storey right angled bay windows of 1+3+1 lights, plain mullions slightly chamfered with simple architrave, shallow pitched slate roofs: to upper bay 4 a 3-light hollow chamfered mullioned window in chamfered recess, without label; all with horizontal bar casements inserted: to lower bay 4 a plain boarded door in slightly chamfered ashlar surround with label over. Attached to noth-west gable a C18 extension, straight jointed, having upper ground floor and semi-basement, possibly a cider room, with roof set lower; above a 2-light hollow chamfered mullioned window, and to left a doorway with flight of stone steps up; below a 3-light mullioned window: 2-light window and door to lower level in gable. Further C19 extensions to rear. Until 1800 the London Inn, prior to re-routing of London-Exeter road; earlier used for court hearings. (VAG Report unpublished SRO, September l972).

Listing NGR: ST5103114826