Description

BUCKLAND-TOUT-SAINTS BEARSCOMBE SX 74 SE 8/44 Bearscombe Farmhouse 26.1.67 GV II Large farmhouse on site of mansion. C17, C18, C19. Thin-bedded coursed rubble, C19 wing rendered, slate roofs, some brick in stacks. A cross-passage plan with 2-storey porch towards left end; the kitchen wing rebuilt with a large 3-storey block at right angles, forward, and some additions at back of long arm. Cellar under right end. Main wing, front, is 1:1:3 windows; to left of porch a 12-pane sash at each level, porch has 16-pane sash in simple architrave surround to cornice, above an opening to pointed segmental arch with voussoirs and edge mould on responds coursed with stonework, inner plank door. To right a series of paired 12-pane sashes to wood mullion, wider at ground floor, and in dressed stone surrounds as porch window; at ground floor, centre, a 6-panel door to flat roofed portico on slender columns. Ridge stacks left, to right of cross passage, and to right gable. Right gable end has large opening to cellar. Back has a gablet, left, over paired 4-pane sashes in brick jambs, then a large projecting gabled wing with small gable light and a square bay to plate-glass sashes; eaves stack to left. The wing, of 1870 has various 4-pane sashes; the outer face drops to give a third storey, includes slightly peaked heads to door and window, has eaves stack on each side, and a doorway on the south front, at courtyard level. Interior: cross-passage has slate floor; parlour to right has two chamfered beams, good shutters and panelling below window, Victorian fire- place on heavy consoles. Opposite the right-hand entrance door is a stick staircase to open well with returned landing, swept handrail; arch between lobby and well. Room added at back, beyond thick outer wall of original house has moulded cornice. Interior has been mainly redecorated in Victorian times, probably when the kitchen wing was rebuilt. A former owner was John Mark, who published an Agricultural Dictionary in 3 volumes in 1794.

Listing NGR: SX7532844691

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