Description

KINGS NYMPTON KINGS NYMPTON PARK
SS 61 NE
3/127
Home Farm House
GV II

Farmhouse. Circa 1840 with late C19 alterations. Rendered cob on stone rubble
plinth. Slate roof with gable-ends, with overhanging verges and eaves; plain
bargeboards at the gable ends. Gable-end stacks with brick shafts.
Plan: 2-room plan with a central entrance passage leading to a staircase behind the
right-hand room. The left-hand room is probably the kitchen and the right-hand room
the parlour. In the late C19 a single storey outshut was built at the left-hand
end.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Almost symmetrical 3-window front. Mid C19 3-light casements
with glazing bars and slate cills. Central doorway with small rectangular overlight
and a C19 plank door.
The rear elevation backs onto the farm yard. The single storey outshut at the left-
hand end is stone rubble with a slate lean-to roof and a small 2-light window at the
front in a red brick surround.
Interior: not inspected.
This is the home farmhouse of Kings Nympton Park (q.v) and is part of a range of C19
planned farm buildings adjoining to the north and north-east.

Listing NGR: SS6719719623

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