Description

SX 99 NE BROADCLYST TOWNEND,
Broadclyst
5/129 Symes Cottage with attached
- outbuildings to rear

- II

House, formerly a farmhouse with attached rear barn and outbuildings. C17 and
later. Rubble sandstone, rendered. Thatched roof, half-hipped to right, gabled-
end to left, with external stone end stack at each end and internal lateral front
stack with brick shaft. Possibly a three-room cross passage plan house now shorn
of one chamber. 2 storeys.
Front to road: scattered fenestration, 3 windows to ground floor, with 2 and 3-
light C20 timber casements; two lst-storey windows to right hand side of house,
one breaking the eaves line. 2 stone buttresses above cobbled pavement. C20
lean-to at the left-hand end of house. Internal evidence of a through passage
with post and plaster screens to either side, the opposing doorways blocked.
Only 2 ground-floor rooms remain, that to the right with end fireplace, massive
timber lintel, chamfered and one beam, chamfered. Left-hand room, beam,
chamfered with step stop. Roof of 4 bays : collar trusses of principals morticed
and side-pegged at apex, and resting on wall plate; collars, side-pegged;
trenched purlins. Barn extension behind house, similar roof construction, 3
trusses with double collars. Adjoining this, and aligned parallel to house
another barn, now converted into a separate dwelling. All sandstone with some
cob patching, and thatched throughout.

Listing NGR: SX9853897252

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26390488

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Recommended Books

• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)