Description

BLACK TORRINGTON
SS 40 SE

10/10 Hole Farmhouse
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- II*

Farmhouse. C16 witn circa mid C17 alterations extended in C17 or C18. Plastered
cob and rubble walls. Thatch roof half-hipped to left end hipped to right.
Plan: 3-room plan with lobby entrance in front of hall stack which divides hall and
lower room to right. The hall stack is probably a relatively late insertion into
what appears from the very primitive roof structure to be a similarly late or very
primitive open hall. This may account for the use of a lobby entrance instead of
the customary through-passage although the higher ground to the rear might also have
precluded that. The inner room was also open to the roof but over the lower end the
structure has been replaced and so its form is more uncertain. 3eyond the lower
room a stable was added in the C17 or C18 with loft above.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front of late C20 small-paned 2-light
casements on 1st floor in small openings and early C20 2 and 3-light casements
below. Early C20 panelled door at centre approached by stone steps. At right end
in continuous line is stable with small window to left of doorway and loading hatch
above reached by C20 wooden steps. Outshut against each end, the left-hand 1
larger. At the rear the centre part of the house is recessed and built of stone
rubble.
Interior: hall has large open fireplace with C19 mantel concealing very high old
wooden lintel. Ceiling renewed. Inner room has closely-spaced chamfered cross
beams.
Roof: the original smoke-blackened roof survives over the hall and inner room with
4 straight not very heavy principal rafters and threaded purlins, the collars not
properly visible but appear to have been set into trusses. Although the features of
this house are of a modest nature it survives as one of the most traditional and
unaltered farmhouses in this part of Devon and whether it be a very late open hall
house or a very simple primitive one it is an unusual survival.

Listing NGR: SS4701903822

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17536484

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Recommended Books

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)