Description

INWARDLEIGH
SX 59 NW
9/138 Eastacombe Farmhouse
- II
Farmhouse. C16 with C19 or C20 addition and C20 alterations. Rubble and cob walls,
rendered at the front. Corrugated iron roof gabled to the right and hipped to the
left. Brick axial stack and projecting rendered rubble stack at right gable end.
Plan: originally 3-room and through passage plan, lower end to the left. Small
hall has stack backing onto the passage and projecting 2 storey window bay at the
front. Inner room may have been lengthened in C18. In C20 it was divided into 2
and a small room created between it and the hall with passage at the rear. Lower
room rebuilt in C19 or C20.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front with gabled hall bay projecting
to left of centre. C20 2-light casements on first floor and ground floor centre,
mid-late C20 leaded pane casement to ground floor of hall bay and similar C20 French
window to right. C20 panelled door to left of hall bay. Beyond it to the left is a
C20 leanto. Interior: pointed 4-centred chamfered wooden doorframe from hall to
inner room. Chamfered half beam above it. Roof trusses probably C19 or C20 - the
feet of insubstantial straight rafters are visible on the first floor.

Listing NGR: SX5450298932

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26399197

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas