Description

NORTH MOLTON RAPSCOTT HILL SS 63 SE 9/174 Great Rapscott Farmhouse - GV II Farmhouse. Early C18 with mid C19 addition, possibly incorporating an earlier core. Dressed sandstone with C19 additions in coursed stone rubble. Rendered cob lean-to outshut at rear. Gable-ended scantle-slate roof. Stone stacks with red-brick tops. Plan and development: C18 two-room central entrance plan, facing south (site falls to left). Axial end stacks, external to right. Central entrance hall with dog-leg staircase in lean-to square projection at rear. One-roomed mid C19 addition (see straight joint to front) to left with integral end stack. Probably early C18 continuous lean-to outshut at rear, incorporating dairy. That part incorporating staircase is higher, and certainly early C18. Outshut extended to rear of C19 addition. Two storeys. Exterior: Asymmetrical 4-bay front (3 bays of C18 house to right); mainly mid-C19 two-light small-paned wooden casements, with wooden lintels to first floor. Ground- floor mid C19 small-paned wooden cross window to left with dressed-stone slightly- segmental arched head (possible blocked window on ground floor to far left see possible straight joints). Two ground-floor late C18 or early C19 boxed 16-pane glazing bar sashes (each leaf of 4 panes across and 2 up) flanking doorway in C18 right-hand part, with wooden lintels and stone relieving arches with dressed voussoirs (left-hand sash is a later replacement with horns to the top leaf). Mid-to late C19 door in centre C18 of right-hand part (between first and second ground-floor Windows from right) with 9 chamfered panels, the top 4 glazed, the centre panels raised and fielded and the lower beaded flush. Old wooden frame. Three stone steps up to door. Lean-to outshut at rear with small end stack at west end. Square staircase projection higher than rest of lean-to outshut. Interior: Early C18 (probably post 1700) dog-leg staircase to rear of entrance hall, with half landing, closed string, turned balusters (symmetrical about central square block), square newel posts with caps, and toad-backed moulded handrail. Two C18 doors at rear of entrance hall, each with 4 raised and fielded panels, left-hand door to staircase and right-hand door to rear room. C18 doors between entrance hall and right and left-hand rooms, both with 2 raised and fielded panels and moulded architrave. Left-hand ground floor room has fireplace with wooden lintel. Dairy in lean-to outshut at rear, with low slate shelves. C18 door on landing, with raised and fielded panels. First-floor rooms and roofspace not inspected. The farmhouse forms part of a large farmstead group, also including adjoining farmbuildings (q.v.), Little Rapscott (q.v.) and Rapscott Cottage (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SS6965230345

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