Description

PITMINSTER CP ST21NW BLAGDON HILL 10/102 The Old Farmhouse II Shown on OS map as Lower Blagdon Farm Farmhouse. House. C17. Roughcast and slobbered rubble, steeply pitched double Roman tiled roof, painted brick stacks gable ends. Plan: 2-cell and cross passage with coeval L-plan outshut and extension at rear, barn adjoining. Two storeys, 3 bays; all C20 wooden casements, 2-light first floor with tiny 2-light wooden light to former stair, ground floor 2 and 4-light casements flanking central C20 porch, C20 ribbed plank door with light; left return unlit wall of barn abutting steeply pitched triple Roman tiled roof, weatherboarded gable end; right return small wooden light to stair on ground floor, wall to right of stack projects as L-plan outshot with French windows and C19 leaded casement above. C20 extension at rear including 4-light steeply chamfered wooden mullioned window. Interior not seen, said to contain stud and panel screens to cross passage, chamfered beams with scroll stops; the former kitchen to right with chamfered lintel to fireplace, remains of bread oven; collar beam trusses to roof,small cornice moulding in 2 rooms on upper storey. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, February 1980).

Listing NGR: ST2115618306

External Links

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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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