Description

SOWTON SOWTON LANE (east side)
SX 99 SE
1/51 Nos. 9 and 10
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18.11.76
- II

2 dwellings, formerly (ie. up to the early C19) a single farmhouse. Possibly late C17 or early C18. The original plan is not certain, but it was probably a 3-room plan house, with the heated principal rooms at either end, and an unheated service room in the centre. Left-hand room heated by an axial stack (the shaft now dismantled), and the right-hand room by an internal end stack. 2 storeys.
Front: no. 9 (to the left) with two 2-light casement windows to first floor; a
3-light casement window to either side of doorway, with tiled porch and half-glazed door. No. 10 (which comprises most of the former farmhouse, to the right of the now partly dismantled axial stack) with two 3-light C19 casement windows to first floor; 2 irregularly placed ground floor windows, both of 3 lights, to either side of planked doorway the porch similar to no. 9.
N W Alcock, 'Houses in an East Devon Parish', Trans. Devon Assoc., 94 (1962),
pp.211-12; fig. 18.

Listing NGR: SX9766992562

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26389827

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