Description

CHERITON FITZPAINE STOCKADON LANE SS 80 NE 7/45 Stockadon Farmhouse - 18.7.75 - II*

Farmhouse. Early C16 with high quality improvements from later C16 and early C17. Plastered cob on rubble footings; cob or stone stacks with C19 and C20 brick chimney shafts; thatched roof. 3-room-and-through-passage plan house facing south-west with inner room at left (north-west) end and with single storey dairy wing to rear of service room. Gable-end stack to inner room, rear lateral stack to hall and front projecting lateral stack to service room. Now 2 storeys. Irregular frontage with 5 windows to first floor and 3 to ground floor. Service room stack projects at right end and the service room itself is broken forward from main front with a late C19 casement with glazing bars on each floor. Passage door immediately to left. Hall has late C19 12-pane sash. Rest are casements including 3 possibly C18 first floor casements with flat-faced mullions. Between the first floor windows to hall and passage chamber are 5 pigeon holes and a sixth is further right. Roof is hipped to right. The rear elevation includes a late C16-early C17 richly-moulded oak 6-light mullion-and-central-transom window to the hall. It contains leaded panes of glass, some of which are old. The inner room has a similar pair of 2-light windows which are blocked but can be seen inside. The rear passage door, behind a C20 porch, has a late C16-early C17 oak segmental-headed frame and includes a contemporary plank door with internal strap hinges and external moulded cover strips arranged to form 9 panels. Very good interior of a house with a long and complex structural history. The oldest part is the 2 roof bays over the hall which is carried on 2 early C16 arch-braced and side-pegged jointed cruck trusses both with small yokes at the apex to carry a diagonally-set ridge (Alcock's Type L2). This part of the roof is smoke-blackened throughout indicating that the original house was heated by an open hearth fire and probably divided only by low partitions. A secondary side-pegged jointed cruck truss over the inner room is probably late C16-early C17, and of the same date is the full- height large-framed crosswall over an oak plank-and-muntin screen which fills an original truss at the upper end of the hall. The inner room has an ovolo-moulded crossbeam with keeled step stops and the chamber above has a C17 moulded plaster cornice taken down the sides of the roof truss. Evidence of a disused dormer window to rear. The hall fireplace, left of the oak window, is of volcanic ashlar with ogee-moulded surround but hacked off the oak lintel. It has a C19 oven inserted in right side. The oak plank-and-muntin screen to the passage has a flat-arched door. There are 2 crossbeams in the hall both elaborately moulded with ornate stops but they are different. The upper end beam has a series of bead mouldings with recessed soffit and the stops have similar series of bead mouldings across, and the lower end beam has bead mouldings with ogees, recessed soffit and ornate ascanthus leaf stops. These moulded beams are unusually high quality for such a relatively small farmhouse. They are probably early-mid C17. The passage has richly moulded half beams on each side and on lower side only part of the oak plank-and-muntin screen survives. The service room has a late C16 chamfered and step-stopped crossbeam and the roof above is C19 work. This is an important and well-preserved multi-phase Devon farmhouse which preserves several features of surprisingly high quality.

Listing NGR: SS8841706447

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