Description

SX 89 SE
4/103

WHITESTONE
Hayne Barton

II

House. 1808 (Braddick). Whitewashed rendered cob; slate roof half-hipped at ends;
brick stack at right end, brick axial stack.
Double depth 4-room plan with a central entrance passage containing the stair with
heated rooms on either side at the front, the right-hand room heated from the gable
end stack, the left-hand room from the axial stack which also serves the former
kitchen to rear left. The partition between the front and rear right-hand rooms has
been removed. A large cellar runs the length of the house under the front rooms.
2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front with C20 glazed front door under a false fanlight
and a flat porch canopy. The first floor central window is a fixed 12-pane window;
16-pane sashes to left and right, the left-hand window a C20 copy; large 24-pane
ground floor sashes. The rear of the house, facing the farmyard has some original
sashes and C20 inserted sashes.
Interior Marble chimney-pieces to both front rooms, large brick fireplace (partly
rebuilt) to old kitchen. Stair with stick balusters and a ramped handrail. A flight
of Heavitree stone steps leads down to the cellar which has a pitched stone floor
with a drain, it may have been used as a cider cellar.
A compact early C19 farmhouse.
According to Braddick the house was rebuilt in 1808..
Braddick, L.E. "Whitestone and Oldridge", T.D.A, vol XIIV, (1962) pp. 339-362, p.
349.

Listing NGR: SX8654493447

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26576141

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