Description

SY 2591 AXMOUTH CHURCH STREET
26/10 (north side)

Axe Farmhouse

II

House. Early C16 with inserted floor to former open hall. Plastered stone rubble.
Thatched roof with half hipped and gabled ends, and eyebrow eaves. Two storeys.
Long four/five window range. Three ovolo moulded wood mullion four-light windows
and later casements. Doorway to cross passage off centre with heavy moulded wood
frame with Tudor arch. Rendered brick ridge stack off centre. Four light chamfered
wooden window in north end. External stack and projection stair bay at rear.
Interior: Jointed cruck trusses. Cross passage with plank and muntin screen and
section of similar screen with Tudor arch doorway to side of chimney stack which
backs onto cross passage. Plank and muntin screen at higher level with Tudor arch
doorway. Two solid wood newel stairs at rear. Partition on first floor with round
arch doorway and another Tudor arch doorway at the top of stairs at the lower end.
Stopped chamfer ceiling beams.

Listing NGR: SY2581191188

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26618228

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version