Description

HALBERTON WILLAND ROAD, Halberton
ST 01 SW
2/207
- Orchard House
- II
2 dwellings, formerly 1 farmhouse. Possibly late C16, with later alterations.
Coursed rubble under gabled-end slate roof. Formerly a 3-room, cross-passage plan,
with lower end rear wing. External front lateral stack heats hall, external end
stacks heat other main rooms, and in internal gable end stack heats wing; all with
brick shafts. 2-storeys.
Front: dominant external lateral stack with moulded set-offs at foot of brick shaft,
and a string course at the eaves level of a catslide roof to the left which covers a
stair turret and landing that lacks any front windows but which is lit by a small 2-
light end window; C19 porch, slated and glazed, with 1 2-light casement window to
both floors to the right.
Right-hand elevation: 2-light casement windows to each floor to left of external end
stack; this stack has paired set-offs below shaft, and a single set-off at the eaves
level of the rear lower end wing, the 2 features being connected by a course of
edged brick, perhaps marking the site of a stair turret; clear masonry joint between
main range and wing; one 2-light window to each floor of this elevation of wing.
Rear: two 4-light windows to ground floor, set close together, and sharing one hood
mould, now partly missing, 15 leaded panes per light and stanchions; C19 two-light
window, and 1 of 4-lights, with 15 leaded panes per light, under hood mould to first
floor. Wing with 1 ground floor window, boarded under hood mould to ground floor
and a blocked window above with no hood mould.
Interior: chamfered cross beams to inner room, and deeply chamfered axial beam to
lower end; interior not entirely inspected; roof not seen.

Listing NGR: ST0123112830

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26462288

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