Description

SS 70 SE SANDFORD

2/208 Woolsgrove Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. Late C16-early C17, thoroughly remodelled in early-mid C19. Plastered
cob and rubble; rubble stacks topped with C19 brick; concrete tile roof (formerly
thatch). Much altered 3-room-and-through-passage house facing south-east with
former inner room at right (north-east) end. End stacks and projecting lateral
stack to rear of hall. In early C19 passage converted to stair hall, inner room
converted to kitchen, game store built to rear of inner room/kitchen and circa 1919
hall fireplace blocked and converted to serve rear extension. 2 storeys. Balanced
5-window front with rusticated quoins each end. Central late 019 2-storey canted
bay window contains large pane sashes with margin panes. 4-panel door with
overlight containing radial glazing bars, panelled reveals and Tuscan doorcase with
pilasters and entablature is left of centre. 12-pane hornless sash right of centre
and 9-pane sash above it and another over door. At each end 16 pane hornless
sashes with 12-pane sashes above them. All windows have granite sills and, with
the exception of the bay, all first floor windows have one pane deep upper sashes.
Rear lateral stack of snecked volcanic stone blocks has moulded shoulder to chimney
shaft with moulded coping with castellated top (now surmounted with C19 brick).
Interior has mostly C19 fittings but late C16-early C17 features are probably
hidden. Late C16-early C17 7-bay roof is intact and carried on side-pegged jointed
cruck trusses, the 2-bay hall (over stair lobby and central room) has cambered
collars.
Site of medieval estate (Devon SMR).

Listing NGR: SS7924102732

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26550015

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Recommended Books

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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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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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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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