Description

WELCOMBE WELCOMBE SS 21 NE

7/202 Welcombe Barton including front garden wall to east

GV II

Farmhouse. Circa early C17, probably a remodelling of an earlier house, with C18 alterations and additions. Local slate rubble, partly rendered at the rear (west). Scantle slate roof with gabled and half-hipped ends. Stone rubble stacks, the axial stack has a rendered shaft and the gable end stable has a rebuilt stone rubble shaft. Plan: As it stands the house is L-shaped on plan. The main front range has a 2 room plan, an unheated room (now kitchen) at the lower left (south) end with a doorway at the front through a 2-storey porch, the hall to the right heated from an axial stack (with an oven) at its lower left end and with a shallow bay at the front with a small unheated closet between the bay and the porch. Behind the hall there is a parlour wing with a gable end stack. Behind the kitchen a dairy outshut and between the dairy and the parlour wing there is a stair tower. This plan appears to be the result of a major early C17 remodelling and C18 improvements. The house is probably of medieval origins and at least the hall would have been open to the roof. The hall seems to have been served by a stack whilst still open to the roof. The major early C17 remodelling involved the raising of the eaves flooring the hall and adding a shallow bay and small unheated closet (possibly originally a stair turret) in front of the hall and the addition of a 2 storey porch in front of the cross- passage. The 2-storey parlour wing is also an early C17 addition. It is uncer- tain when the lower left end room was reduced and when the partition on the left hand side of the cross-passage was removed. The dairy outshut behind the lower end appears to be earlier than the C18 stair tower which was built in the space between the outshut and the parlour wing. The house was also improved in the C18 for much of the internal joinery is of that date. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window each front with large projecting 2-storey porch to left of centre with a segmental timber lintel to the doorway and C19 panelled inner door; C20 casement to chamber above the porch. To right of porch a C19 2-light casement with glazing bars on the ground floor and a blocked window and C20 casement above. To left of porch a C20 casement on the ground floor and C20 12-pane sash above. The right hand (north) side has circa early C19 2-light 12-pane sashes on the ground floor and large C20 casement above. The rear elevation is rendered and has various C20 casements and sashes. Including front garden area wall adjoining each of house; probably C18. Coloured slate rubble with cement capping. A low thick wall enclosing a small rectangular garden area and pathway to the porch of the house. Interior: The hall's main ceiling beam is unchamfered but the beam to the large bay at the front is ovolo moulded with bar stops. There is also an ovolo moulded beam set in the chimney-breast over the fireplace which has a plain chamfered timber lintel with straight cut stops and an oven in the back. Under the north window of the hall the old bench survives and in the west wall there are 2 cupboards, one with ventilation slits. To the side of the fireplace there is a C29 settle with a tall curved back containing a cupboard. The parlour in the rear (west) wing has an unchamfered cross-beam hacked for plaster and a fireplace with an chamfered timber lintel with ogee stops and dressed stone jambs, but no oven. The parlour has C18 dado panelling. The kitchen has a chamfered axial beam and half-beam with straight cut stops and a small window to the dairy at the back with a cham- fered frame and a stanchion bar. Inside the front doorway in the kitchen a lobby had been created which has some old wooden hat pegs. The dairy has slate shelves and a brick floor. the hall's floor is slate. The C18 dog-leg stair- case has a closed string, square newels with moulded caps, moulded handrail and closely-spaced stick balusters. On the first floor there are many C18 2-panel doors. The doorway to the small chamber over the porch has a chamfered frame with ogee stops; the porch chamber has a section of early C17 moulded plaster frieze decorated with a trailing plant and rosettes. The roof space was not available for inspection (March 1988) but the fact of the principals exposed on the first floor appear to be straight.

Listing NGR: SS2296118346

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