Description

EXMINSTER
SX 98 NW

4/25 Crablake Farm and garden walls to
- to the east

GV II

Farmhouse and garden walls. Early C19, possibly with an earlier core, stone and
brick, cement rendered; slate roofs gabled at ends; rendered end stacks with
platbands on shafts.
Main range with rear left and right wings forming an overall U plan. The main range
has 2 principal rooms, heated from gable end stacks, on either side of a central
stair hall with an open well stair. A rear corridor in a single-storey lean to links
the principal rooms in the main range with the rear left and right wings and acts as
a service corridor to the kitchen, which is the rear right wing. 2 entrances: 1
central to the main range leading into the stair hall, a second on the right end of
the main range in the angle between the main range and kitchen wing. The exterior of
the house is consistent with a circa 1845 date (dated farmbuilding) but the stair
could be late C18 and the house refronted in the early C19.
2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front with central gabled porch with deep eaves and a
chamfered arched outer doorway with a plank door with strap hinges. The windows have
eared lugged architraves: 3 first floor 2-light casements, 2 panes per light; outer
ground floor windows 4-light and transomed with 2 panes below the transom; 1-light
windows flanking porch, similarly transomed. The kitchen wing, adjacent to the farm
lane, has similar windows, the rear left wing has a glazed verandah on the outer long
side.
Interior: Joinery includes a good open well stair with stick balusters and a ramped
wreathed handrail. Ground floor room left has a Devon marble chimney-piece and a
ceiling rose.
Stone rubble walls to garden in front of house included for group value.

Listing NGR: SX9455186225

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26389286

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