Description

SS 4836-4936 BRAUNTON NORTH STREET, Braunton

12/98 Town Farm, including wall
- adjoining south-east and railings
adjoining east

- II*

Farmhouse, now farm store. C15 or early C16. Partially roughcast rendered stone
and cob. Corrugated asbestos roof hipped at upper end gable end to street. Rubble
stack extended in brick at upper end. Offset brick stack to rear and large lateral
hall stack at front with slated offsets, tapered cap and small rounded bread oven in
the angle. 2-storeys basic 3-cell cross passage plan but upper end has slightly
projecting gabled 'cross-wing' forming truncated L-shape plan. Cross-passage also
widened to form extra middle room. 1½ storey outshut added to rear in the angle of
the L-shape. At a later stage, probably C19, the upper end was boarded off and a
staircase added to rear to form separate single cell dwelling. Courtyard facade has
3 window range of horizontal sliding sash 8 panes over 8 panes to left then 3 light
window with glazing bars and 2-light window (6 panes each) to right of stack
inserted in former large opening. Below is sash 8 panes over 8 panes at upper end
to left of 6-panelled door. Tall 4-light hall window with ovolo mullions, formerly
with leaded lights, now glazing bars. Cross-passage door to right of stack has 4
panels in the upper part, planked in lower 2 panels. Rear side has 3-light window
with ovolo-moulded mullions in the gable-ended "cross-wing" over a 2-light window
with timber surround. Rest of range has small oblong opening to left of 3 square
openings with timber lintels. 2-light casement over. Street gable end has 2 sashes
8 panes over 8 panes. Much of the internal joinery is intact including fleur-de-lis
hinges to the doors. Wooden newel staircase to rear of hall with moulded handrail.
Raised cruck truss over lower end of hall with chamfered arch-braces to slightly
cambered collar. Further truss over lower end with lighter straight principals.
Both trusses, two tiers of purlins threaded through the cruck truss, trenched in the
lower truss, rafters mostly intact and hipped construction at lower end are all
smoke-blackened. Roof structure over hall entirely replaced in C20. At upper end,
one main truss in the cross-wing with threaded purlins survives, no evidence of
smoke-blackening. Including section of wall to road adjoining south-east and
enclosing east side of farmyard. Whitewashed stone rubble with tiled capping and
iron railings at east end of house, wrought iron with spear headed shafts. Town
farmhouse and its range of farm buildings (q.v.) is the Village Farmstead in
Braunton. It is a remarkable survival of a townfarm in a nucleated settlement which
still has its open field system, the West Field.

Listing NGR: SS4852536657

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17532701

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