Description

SX 79 SW DREWSTEIGNTON

5/35 Cider house approximately 30
metres north-west of Drascombe
Barton
GV II

Cider house. Probably mid C17. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings, one end
rebuilt in local stone rubble with large dressed granite quoins; corrugated iron
roof (formerly thatch).
Plan and exterior description: the building faces south. The wide doorway to right
now contains a C20 door. Left of this and external flight of stone steps rise to a
door to the apple loft. The roof is half-hipped to left and hipped to right. At
the back are the remains of a C19 horse engine house; its roof carried on massive
timber posts some of which have been replaced by granite posts.
Interior: 3-bay ceiling, the right bay open to the roof. The left crossbeam is
massive. It is soffit-chamfered and supported by posts with jowled heads set in the
cob walls. The right crossbeam is soffit-chamfered with step stops. 3-bay roof of
C17 A-frame trusses, one with its original collar halved into the principals.
This cider house forms part of a group with the important farmhouse, Drascombe
Barton (q.v), its garden walls (q.v) and Butterwell (q.v).

Listing NGR: SX7012292060

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26399988

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Recommended Books

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)