Description

NORTH MOLTON NORTH HEASLEY SS 73 SW 10/169 North Heasley Farmhouse and shippon - adjoining to south-west GV II Farmhouse and shippon. Early to mid C17 house, remodelled in the mid to late C19. Probably late C18 early C19 shippon. Rendered, probably over stone rubble, with gable-ended asbestos slate roof. C17 rendered stone square stacks with weatherings. Stone rubble shippon with some cob on top of walls and gable-ended corrugated-iron roof. Plan and development: C17 three-room plan house, facing south-east. End rooms with integral end stacks and small central unheated room with passage to rear. C17 two- storey outshut to rear of centre and right-hand end, incorporating C17 staircase to rear of central room. Right-hand room with entrance to right, probably formerly the principal room. The C19 remodelling included fenestration and probably the raising of the eaves. Shippon adjoining to left, probably a post C17 addition. Two storey house with shippon of one storey and loft. Exterior: Roughly-symmetrical front; mainly mid to late C19 two- and 3-light wooden casements, with transoms to first floor and small panes to ground floor. C20 left hand ground-floor window. C20 glazed door to right under C20 flat-roofed porch between house and outbuilding (not included). Two-light staircase window to rear. Front of shippon with half-height boarded door to left and C20 metal casement to right; gable end to left has loft opening with wooden lintel. Interior: Right-hand ground-floor room has C17 chamfered cross beam and wall beam with scroll stops, and open stone fireplace with rebuilt jambs but retaining C17 chamfered wooden lintel with scroll stops. Left-hand ground-floor room with longitudinal joists and fireplace with sandstone ashlar jambs and wooden lintel.

Listing NGR: SS7315533134

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