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SAMPFORD COURTENAY SAMPFORD COURTNAY
SS 60 SW
11/180 New Inn
GV II

Inn. Circa early C17 with later C17 wing. Rendered and plastered rubble and cob
walls. Gable ended thatch roof. 3 gable end brick stacks, that to rear wing has
projecting rendered rubble base.
Plan: original plan not entirely clear but appears to run back from present front
in 2-room range which may have had apassage between them. each room treated by gable
end stack. 1-room wing added behind right-hand room also heated by end stack and
probably built later in the C17.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2-window front, left-hand side gabled and
recessed slightly. Circa early C20 1, 2, 3 and 4-light casements. To left of
centre is C19 6-panel door. The main range of the house extends to the rear of the
left-hand end wnich has 5-window front of C19 and early C20 small-paned casements.
Interior: front left-hand room has fireplace with chamfered granite jambs and
replacement lintel. Section of chamfered plank and muntin screen at rear. The room
behind has a framed ceiling of intersecting deep chamfered beams, unstopped.
Fireplace has rough granite jambs and chamfered wooden lintel. Plank and muntin
screen, chamfered with high hollow step stops above a wooden bench and doorframe
with cranked head.

Listing NGR: SS6333200891