Description

NEWTON ST CYRES WEST TOWN
SX 89 NE
5/5 Halses and front garden wall
- to east
GV II
Former farmhouse. Early C16 origins with C16, C17 and later improvements.
Plastered cob on rubble footings; stone stacks with brick tops exposed above
thatched roof. Traditional 3-room and through passage plan, now 2 storeys
throughout. Small inner room/dairy to right (north) end and large service room to
lower end divided in late C18 - C19. Roof hipped to left, gabled to right.
Passage door nearly central. To right casement to hall and ancillary door to inner
room. To left 2 windows of different size. The thatch lifts to accommodate the 2
first floor windows. Roof structure was rebuilt in the late C18 - C19 but
preserves fragments of original smoke-blackened roof supported on side-pegged
jointed crucks. In late C16 - early C17 hall stack inserted backing onto passage
towards front with rear having oak post-and-panel screen with segmental-headed
door. Hall floored in C17 with scroll-stopped beam. From right end of front cob
garden wall with pitched tile top curves round to enclose front garden stepping
down in height.

Listing NGR: SX8766897621

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26611147

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Recommended Books

• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)