Description

CHURCHSTOW LEIGH SX 74 NW 5/70 Gatehouse to Leigh Barton Farm GV I Gatehouse to farmhouse group. C15. Thin bedded coursed schist, slate roof. Gatehouse in two storeys, with flanking boundary walls. To the road a long section of blank wall contains pair of plank doors in pointed arch to double chamfer, flush voussoirs; centres above an upper chamber with 2-light mullion and transom window to uncusped heads in moulded stopped drip, set above a conti- nuous moulded drip course which forms the bottom members of steep weathered coping to flanking screen walls. Upper level has coped verged and stack to pyramidal capping, left. Inner front has wide round arched opening to chamfer, under 2-light cusped window with drip, as outer face, above moulded string which becomes rich moulded wide corbel course to right over a set-back section of wall; small stair light on right return. Flank walls have drip course under parapet, to right with putlog holes or rafter recesses; to left a large rubble raking buttress supports outer end, and links with North Comery Farmhouse (qv). Interior has upper chamber with fireplace and garderobe, approached by the stone spiral stair. Roof rebuilt in 1950's. AM Devon No 193. (Beric M Morley; Leigh Barton, Churchstow, S Devon; Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings, No 41, 1983).

Listing NGR: SX7202646728

External Links

• Wikidata Q17527031

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