Description

HACCOMBE-WITH-COMBE HIGHER NETHERTON
SX 89 71

15/115 Yarner

GV II

House. C17 origins, plaster ceiling dated 1726, substantial remodelling and
extension of the 1930s. Whitewashed rendered cob and stone rubble ; thatched roof,
hipped at left end, half-hipped at right end, half-hipped to wing ; 2 projecting
front lateral stacks, the left hand stack with the shaft dismantled.
Plan: Complex evolution. The main block is single depth and appears to be of 2
different periods with a thick crosswall to the apex to the right of the entrance,
and a much lower floor level to the right. The right-hand end consists of one room
(possibly originally 2) with a C17 fireplace. On the first floor a decorated plaster
ceiling, dated 1726 but earlier in character, appears to have been part of a grand
first floor chamber taking in the whole of the first floor but subsequently
subdivided. The date is surprising given the design of the plasterwork and the
provision of such a large first floor room. The left end of the house consists of a
1930s entrance with stair, the partition of the entrance hall abutting the left-hand
lateral stack rather awkwardly. Carpentry details pre-dating the 1903s appear to be
no earlier than C18. A rear left wing, at right angles to the main block, is 1930s.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 5 window front, the eaves thatch eyebrowed over
the first floor window to the right of the front door, which is 1930s, approximately
central with a thatched porch on posts. Second door on front at extreme left into a
former larder or backhouse at the left end. Small pane 1930s metal frame casements
with metal glazing bars ; 2 round ground floor windows of the some date, one in the
disused left-hand stack, another to the right of the front door. Metal frame
windows, including French windows, matching those on the front, on the right return,
rear elevation and to the 1930s wing.
Interior: The fireplace to the right-hand room has one moulded red sandstone jamb
(right-hand jamb rebuilt) and a chamfered step-stopped lintel, all of a C17
character. The crossbeams are 1930s but a set of scratch-moulded joists, about the
right width for a passage, survive at the left end of the room. However, these may
be re-used as there are other similar re-used joists in the room. The room to the
left of the porch has closely-spaced crossbeams of slender scantling. 1930s joinery
includes the staircase and a number of plank doors. The plaster ceiling, dated 1726,
is intriguing. The date, and initials AG and WOAI (the last partly concealed by
modern partitions) are in reverse. The single-rib pattern includes 2 well-preserved
heart shapes, enriched with floral motifs (some rather rustic). The ceiling is
divided into 3 bays by chamfered plastered-over beams and no cornice survives (if one
ever existed). Although there was an Anthony Gotbed living in the parish in 1726
there is no evidence that he lived at Yarner: he was born in 1672 and it has been
suggested that the plasterer who did not reverse the moulds for the ceiling may also
have placed the numbers of the date in the wrong order (Mrs P. Whiteaway, co-author
of the parish history).
Roof: Much repaired over the right end of the house, but one truss has a lap-
dovetailed collar and formerly had threaded purlins and a threaded ridge : consistent
with a late C17 date but possible, if rather archaic, in the early C18. The plaster
ceiling has been partly re-suspended on timber posts fixed to a tie beam, presumably
in the 1930s. The roof structure over the left end of the house is probably C18 or
C19.
An interesting house with a very unusual and rather puzzling ceiling.

Listing NGR: SX8928671176

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26461573

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