Description

SW 73 SE BUDOCK

3/20 Wash-house, waggon house, stable
- and barn adjoining Tregedna
Farmhouse
GV II

Wash-house, waggon house, stables and barn, part of which used to be a mill. Circa
mid-late C19. Killas rubble (quarried on the farm) with granite dressings. Grouted
scantle slate roofs with gable ends, slightly projecting eaves. Cast-iron ogee-
section gutters.
Plan: L-shaped plan. Cross wing or former mill on cart shed on the left, projecting
and built into the bank at the rear, integral with long barn with loose boxes under
which adjoins a slightly lower range on the right with stables on its left, a waggon
shed (later converted to a trap-house) and a wash-house on its right adjoining the
gable end of the farmhouse. Virtually unaltered plan. 2 threshing floors.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Unaltered elevations with most of the original doors, windows
and shutters in their original openings. Wooden lintels spanning the openings and
there are the ends of large roughly-hewn cross beams visible on the outside of the
walls. South-east front has mill and barn on the left and a slightly lower range of
stables, waggon shed and wash-house on the right.
Gable end of mill on the left with wide cartshed doorway and loading/winnowing
doorway over. Barn has 3 ground floor doorways with loading/winnowing doorway over
the central doorway and 2-light shuttered windows over the other doorways. Loading
doorways and right-hand doorway have split ledged and braced door, the other openings
have doors with slatted ventilators. Stables have a nearly symmetrical front with
doorway and shuttered window over, slightly right of middle. Split ledged and braced
door. Wide 2-light casement window (partly boarded over) with glazing bars, on the
left and a smaller 2-light casement window on the right. Waggon house has wide
doorway with through passage door on the left and pair of doors on the right. Wooden
louvres above the left-hand side, pair of doors on the right. Wash house has
original 18-pane 2-light window on the left and doorway on the right. C20 window in
rendered wall above. Cobbled pavement in front of the barn and stables.
Interior: Virtually unaltered interior has original floors and roof structure and
some fittings.

Listing NGR: SW7849730429

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26613824

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)