Description

CREDITON

SX89NW EXETER ROAD
672-1/2/47 (North side)
Planned farmyard at Wellparks

GV II

Estate planned farmyard, part of the Downes estate. Circa
1840. Flemish bond brick on local volcanic trap footings;
slate roofs.
Plan: Double-courtyard plan, with narrower north yard.
South yard, South Range is an 8-bay linhay, weatherboarded
below the loft with large chamfered posts to the bays. King
post and strut roof, some of the struts removed, or perhaps
never used. The west range is a similar 9-bay linhay with a
C20 addition on the front to the north. Beyond the linhay a
2-storey brick building with brick-coped gables, probably a
granary, with a segmental-headed doorway into the yard and a
loft door over. The north range consists of pigsties with
brick walls in front, with a monopitch pantile roof and a
rounded corner. The east rnage includes, to the south, an
archway from the lane into the lower yard. To the north, a
4-bay barn with opposed doorways with brick cheeks. 5 bay
stable to north with door to left, 4 ground floor windows, a
central loft door and 4 first floor windows.
North Yard. This has a 2-bay open-fronted linhay on the east
side. The north range consists of a 3-storey block. On the
first floor a lofted barn, built into the slope of the land,
with the remains of a horse engine house to the rear (north)
with granite columns. The ground floor of the front elevation
(under the threshing barn) has 2 windows at the left end and 4
segmental headed doorways to the right, with 2 storeys of
doors and windows above. A slot in the right (east) end of the
barn has a shaft for driving machinery, presumably from a
steam or petrol mechanism. A particularly large and grand
example of a planned farmyard, unusual for Devon.

Listing NGR: SX8443699587

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26584868

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