Description

LANDKEY WESTACOTT
SS 53 SE
7/126
Westacott House and Barn
attached
GV
II

Farmhouse with barn attached. House probably C16 remodelled in late C17 when the
barn was added. House extended in late C18/early C19. Colour painted rendered
stone and cob. Slate roofs, hipped at left end, roof level raised towards right
end. Barn is stone-fronted, cob to rear. Slate roof with gable end. Overall L-
shaped plan with barn extending at right angles to front right side of farmhouse.
Farmhouse originally 3-cell plan, with hall and upper end heated by rear lateral
stacks both with brick shafts. Ridge stack with brick shaft formerly at lower
gable end now enclosed by C18/C19 extensions with further brick stack at left end
and small 2-storied extension to rear of this addition. House has 2-storeys, 5-
window range. C20 fenestration. Barn has slated canopy with projecting piers to
full height each side of wide threshing door of 2 leaves. with opposing doors to
rear. Double plank doors to right. Buttress to full height at right end. Plank
door to left end near the angle of the farmhouse with ovolo mullion timber window
of 2-lights to right. 3-light C19 window above. 2-light chamfered timber mullion
window to rear.
Interior: ovolo moulded timber lintel to chimneypiece at upper end of farmhouse,
formerly with plasterwork overmantel said to have been the Acland Crest and dated
1690. 3 raised cruck trusses survive over hall and lower end, 1 with cranked
collar tenoned into soffit mortices to principals. No sign of smoke-blackening. 2
tiers of threaded purlins and diagonally set ridge purlin. Straight principals to
2 trusses over right hand end, with superimposed C17 roof structure above these of
2 trusses with lap-jointed collars.

Listing NGR: SS5859232850

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26610840

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)