Listing Text

SS 72 SE BISHOP'S NYMPTON WEST STREET, Bishop's Nympton

6/57 Capitol Farmhouse including walls
- to garden to the south

GV II

Farmhouse and garden wall. Farmhouse probably C18 with an earlier rear wing, re-
windowed in the C19. Colourwashed rendered stone rubble with a slate roof with deep
eaves, gabled at ends; end stacks, projecting lateral stack to rear wing with a bread
oven. Late C19. Stone rubble garden wall.
Plan: Adjacent to the churchyard and facing the village. Single-depth south-facing
main range, 2 rooms wide with heated rooms on either side of a central entrance
passage facing the stair. Rear kitchen wing at right angles to the main range with a
lower roofline may be earlier.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 4-bay front with a central gabled porch and a C20
2-leaf front door. Porch flanked by C19 16-pane sashes, 4 first floor 2-light C19 or
C20 timber casements with glazing bars. The wing has a massive projecting stack on
the west elevation with a bread oven. Stone rubble wall to the garden south and west
of the farmhouse is probably contemporary with the 1870s planned farmyard to the
west.
Interior: Open fireplace to left hand room.
Roof Not inspected but may be of interest.
Group value with the church, churchyard walls and the planned farmyard.

Listing NGR: SS7572023743