Description

KINGS NYMPTON KINGS NYMPTON PARK
SS 61 NE
3/174 Range of farm buildings around-
farmyards to north and north-east
of Home Farmhouse
GV II

Range of planned farmbuildings around 2 farmyards.
Probably began in C18 but remodelled and extended in circa mid and late C19. Stone
rubble and cob walls. Slate and corrugated iron and asbestos sneet roofs with
gabled and hipped ends.
The Home Farmhouse (q.v) is in the south-west corner and backs on the west farmyard
on tne south side of which adjoining the house is a long circa early C19 8-bay cob
linhay with a corrugated asbestos roof and an open front facing the yard. On the
west side of the yard there is another linhay of circa late C19 with an open 6-bay
front facing the yard with 5 red brick piers. On the north side of the west yard an
earlier barn, probably a late C19 remodelling of an C18 barn, built of stone rubble
with a gable-ended slate roof and opposing double doors, the doorway facing the yard
has projecting cheeks and a chamfered wooden frame. Behind to the north of the barn
a C19 horse engine house. Adjoing the east of the barn a C19 root house and small
linhay and cider house containing a cider press. On the east side of the west yard
at the centre, there is a late C19 granary building with a cartway through a wall
separating the 2 yards.
On the north side of the east yard a range of shippons with a 4-bay linhay at its
east end which returns for another 8 bays enclosing the east end of the yard. On
tne south side of the east yard another cob range, probably stables or a shippon
backing onto the yard with a corrugated asbestos roof carried over a cartway at its
west end adjoining the linhay on the south side of the west yard. Attached to the
east end of tne shippon a low building with a tall red brick chimney stack which is
said to have been a slaughter house.
Interiors: were not inspected.

Listing NGR: SS6719019611

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26611313

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