Description

SS 62 NW CHITTLEHAMPTON EAST STREET (north side)
Chittlehampton
1/137 Bratton Farmhouse

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- II

Farmhouse. Some reused medieval roof timbers survive, but complete remodellings
occurred probably in C17 and in C19. Rear kitchen wing added 1903. Interior again
altered in late C20. Painted rendered stone rubble and cob. Slate roof with gable
ends. Tall rear lateral stone rubble stack with offsets to room to left of passage,
stone rubble stack heightened in brick at right gable end, and brick stack to gable
end of rear kitchen wing.
Plan: originally an open-hall house, entirely remodelled in C17 and C19, with C20
alterations further obscuring the original plan, but appears to have been a 3-room-
and-through-passage plan, with 2 rooms now converted into one to the right of the
passage, the end room heated by the gable end stack, the room off the passage said
to have been heated by a rear lateral stack which was probably demolished when the
rear kitchen wing was added in 1903. The room to the left of the passage was
formerly used as a kitchen with dairy beyond retaining its slate slabs. As the
reused smoke-blackened purlins are situated over this end of house, it is possible
that the house has been "turned round", the original hall being situated to the left
of the passage. The latter was widened in the C20 and a staircase inserted, with an
additional C19 staircase in an outshut in the left-hand angle of the rear kitchen
wing.
2 storeys. 4 window range. Complete C19 fenestration, all 12-paned hornless
sashes. Slate gabled roof to porch with C19 panelled inner door, the upper 2 panels
glazed.
Interior: much altered in C20, but some good quality C19 joinery survives to ground
floor. The eaves were heightened in the C19, with rough pegged trusses with lapped
collars, but reusing some smoke-blackened purlins to the new left side, the upper
tier chamfered on the underside with run-out stops.

Listing NGR: SS6397425540

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26563230

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