Description

CHERITON FITZPAINE STOCKADON LANE
SS 80 NE
7/45 Stockadon Farmhouse
-
18.7.75
- II*

Farmhouse. Early C16 with high quality improvements from later C16 and early C17.
Plastered cob on rubble footings; cob or stone stacks with C19 and C20 brick chimney
shafts; thatched roof. 3-room-and-through-passage plan house facing south-west with
inner room at left (north-west) end and with single storey dairy wing to rear of
service room. Gable-end stack to inner room, rear lateral stack to hall and front
projecting lateral stack to service room. Now 2 storeys. Irregular frontage with 5
windows to first floor and 3 to ground floor. Service room stack projects at right
end and the service room itself is broken forward from main front with a late C19
casement with glazing bars on each floor. Passage door immediately to left. Hall
has late C19 12-pane sash. Rest are casements including 3 possibly C18 first floor
casements with flat-faced mullions. Between the first floor windows to hall and
passage chamber are 5 pigeon holes and a sixth is further right. Roof is hipped to
right. The rear elevation includes a late C16-early C17 richly-moulded oak 6-light
mullion-and-central-transom window to the hall. It contains leaded panes of glass,
some of which are old. The inner room has a similar pair of 2-light windows which
are blocked but can be seen inside. The rear passage door, behind a C20 porch, has a
late C16-early C17 oak segmental-headed frame and includes a contemporary plank door
with internal strap hinges and external moulded cover strips arranged to form 9
panels.
Very good interior of a house with a long and complex structural history. The oldest
part is the 2 roof bays over the hall which is carried on 2 early C16 arch-braced and
side-pegged jointed cruck trusses both with small yokes at the apex to carry a
diagonally-set ridge (Alcock's Type L2). This part of the roof is smoke-blackened
throughout indicating that the original house was heated by an open hearth fire and
probably divided only by low partitions. A secondary side-pegged jointed cruck truss
over the inner room is probably late C16-early C17, and of the same date is the full-
height large-framed crosswall over an oak plank-and-muntin screen which fills an
original truss at the upper end of the hall. The inner room has an ovolo-moulded
crossbeam with keeled step stops and the chamber above has a C17 moulded plaster
cornice taken down the sides of the roof truss. Evidence of a disused dormer window
to rear. The hall fireplace, left of the oak window, is of volcanic ashlar with
ogee-moulded surround but hacked off the oak lintel. It has a C19 oven inserted in
right side. The oak plank-and-muntin screen to the passage has a flat-arched door.
There are 2 crossbeams in the hall both elaborately moulded with ornate stops but
they are different. The upper end beam has a series of bead mouldings with recessed
soffit and the stops have similar series of bead mouldings across, and the lower end
beam has bead mouldings with ogees, recessed soffit and ornate ascanthus leaf stops.
These moulded beams are unusually high quality for such a relatively small farmhouse.
They are probably early-mid C17. The passage has richly moulded half beams on each
side and on lower side only part of the oak plank-and-muntin screen survives. The
service room has a late C16 chamfered and step-stopped crossbeam and the roof above
is C19 work.
This is an important and well-preserved multi-phase Devon farmhouse which preserves
several features of surprisingly high quality.

Listing NGR: SS8841706447

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17548370

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)