Description

CALSTOCK HIGHER DIMSON
SX 4271-4371
7/114 Body's Court
II
Farmhouse, now house. Early C17, with alterations of later C17, and later
alterations and additions. Granite and slatestone rubble, partly rendered and partly
painted, with granite dressings. Asbestos slate roof, hipped in 2 ranges ; end stack
to left, formerly at the left gable end ; axial hall stack in granite ashlar with
cornice and shaped top.
Plan: 2-room plan with cross passage ; as described from the original back of the
house, the hall is to right, heated by an axial stack backing onto the passage, and
the lower end room is to left, heated by a gable end stack. A stair tower was added
to the rear of the passage, which appears to have been built at the same time as a
one-room plan addition to rear of the hall, since the access to the stair tower is
through this room; the additional room is heated from a stack at the outer side, and
has been considerably remodelled in circa C19. Part of the lower end room to front
has been partitioned as a dairy with built-in stone trough.
Exterior: 2 storeys, asymmetrical front, probably originally the back of the house ;
the doorway to the passage has chamfered granite surround, with segmental arch with
carved leaves over, moulded jambs with step stops, C20 door. 16-pane light above.
To right, a chamfered granite 2-light window with hood mould and casements. This was
probably originally the back window of the hall. At first floor an inserted C20 2-
light casement ; to right there is a blocked window at first floor, visible
internally. The wall steps forward to the lower end to left, with a 2-light casement
at ground floor with C20 granite cill and lintel, C20 casement at first floor to
left. The right end has a 3-light casement at ground floor with C20 granite lintel,
C19 12-pane sash at first floor, inserted when the chamber over the hall was
partitioned. At the left end a single light storey lean-to porch to left. At the
rear, the lower end lighting the dairy. Single storey lean-to porch to left. At the
rear, the lower end has 3-light C20 casement at ground and first floor and 2-light
casement to left at mid level. To left, the inner side of the stair tower has 4-pane
light and 12-pane sash ; rear has ground floor C19 12-pane sash and 4-panelled door,
first floor two 12-pane sashes.
Interior: The lower end room to left has C20 slate floor ; the dairy is very small,
and the stone trough appears to have been built in to the foundations of the house.
The passage has a C20 slate floor ; C19 inserted newel stair to rear of passage. To
rear right is a doorway to the hall, with wooden ovolo-moulded frame. The hall has
slate floor. Fireplace with granite jambs and flat lintel, carved with vestigial
ogee forming three sections, with carved oak leaves and animals, possibly sheep and
fishes. Cloam oven inserted to rear left. Chamfered and step stopped beams. The
wall between the hall and the rear room is a stud partition ; this room gives access
to the stair tower, with rebuilt winder stair. On the first floor, the chamber over
the hall has granite fireplace, with moulded jambs and flat lintel, vestigial ogee
with carved leaves. Blocked window at the front of the room, with splayed reveals ;
the window to front is a later insertion, when the room was partitioned and the sash
inserted in the right end. The feet of the principals are visible, chamfered and
straight. Small chamber over the passage with keeping hole. The roof over the hall
and the rear room was raised and rebuilt as one in circa C19. 2 early trusses remain
over the hall, the principal rafters halved and pegged, with cambered collars also
halved and pegged to the principals ;. the principals are chamfered up to the collar
level ; formerly had threaded purlins. Roof over the lower end probably of C18, the
principal rafter halved and pegged but not chamfered.

Listing NGR: SX4258971389

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26614614

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Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)