Description

ST 11 SW HEMYOCK WESTOWN
5/66 Westown Farmhouse
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- II
Farmhouse. Mid C16; one of the two rear wings is C17; later alterations. Random
rubble flint; gable end slate roof.
Plan: originally a 4-room, through-passage plan house, the hall and inner room to
the left of the passage, with a contemporary wing to the rear; the service end is
divided into 2 rooms by a fireplace which looks modern but has a stone stack and
shaft; the extreme right-hand room (unheated) has a blocked drain which suggests
the possibility of its having once been a shippon (see Commander Williams' report
cited below). A C17 wing is placed to the rear of the lower end, with a large end
fireplace, and probably served as a kitchen. Hall is heated by a stone axial stack
backing onto the passage; early wing heated by an internal lateral stack (to the
inner face). The house appears always to have been of 2 storeys.
Exterior: Front: 4-window range; first floor with C19 2 and 3-light casement
windows, one with stanchions; ground floor : plain, chamfered, 4-centred stone arch
to passage. Casement and sash windows. Buttressing. Right-hand elevation : a
projection under a catslide close to the junction of wing and main range could be a
former newel stair turret. Otherwise C19 and C20 casement windows. Left-wing end
elevation concealed by adjacent linhay (q.v.) Rear: the C17 wing has no windows to
end elevation or inner face; French window and casement windows to earlier wing.
Between the 2 wings are some later additions and a pointed stone doorway arch
(originally opposing that to the front) has been re-set.
Interior: hall and inner room divided by a plank and muntin screen of which only a
fragment survives; a partition above it rises through the first floor. Uncovered
since Commander Williams' visit (1982) is a doorway from the hall into the rear
wing, chamfered with cranked lintels, morticed into heavy studs that act as jambs.
Roof with 6 trusses with straight principals; the roof was not inspected but is
described in great detail in Commander E H D Williams' report in NMR, (1982), and
more briefly in Period Home, Vol. 5, no. 6 (July 1984), pp. 59-60.

Listing NGR: ST1192713461

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26462795

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas