Description

PLYMTREE ST 00 SW 2/135 Sanguishes Farmhouse - II -

Farmhouse. Probably early - mid C16 with major later C16 and C17 improvements, modernised in the late C19. Plastered cob on low stone rubble footings; stone rubble and cob stacks topped with C19 and C20 brick, one including a stone rubble chimneyshaft; corrugated asbestos roof. Plan and development: L-plan farmhouse. The main block faces south. It has a 4- room-and-through-passage plan. The right (east) end is the lower end but it contains a parlour with an axial stack backing onto the passage and beyond it a narrow service room at the end. In the late C19 the latter was converted to a potato store and sealed off from the parlour but before was probably a buttery or cellar. The winder stair off the passage has a late C17 structure but the balustrade was replaced in the late C19. The other side of the passage is the dining room, the former hall with a projecting rear lateral stack, and at the left (west) end a large kitchen with projecting gable-end stack. A dairy block with unheated servant accommodation above projects at right angles in front of the left end. Almost certainly the house began as some form of open hall house but the early structural history is hidden because the main block roof is inaccessible. Indeed, throughout the house much of the structural carpentry and early features are hidden behind C19 and C20 plaster. The present layout appears to be the result of a major late C17 refurbishment of the house. Farmhouse is 2 storeys with secondary lean-to outshots across the back. Exterior: irregular 3-window front of various C20 casements, the latest made of uPVC. The potato store doorway at the right end contains a C20 plank door. The passage front doorway is right of centre and it contains a late C19 part-glazed 6- panel door. On the inner side of the dairy block there is an unglazed C18 flat- faced mullion window. At the back of the kitchen is an original doorway, its lintel is chamfered with scroll stops and contains an old plank door. (There is another similar doorway at the front between kitchen and dairy block). Above the rear doorway is a late C17 oak-framed window containing rectangular panes of old glass; it is now sheltered under the outshot roof. Main roof is gable-ended. Interior: is largely the result of C19 and C20 modernisations and many features are hidden behind plaster. Nevertheless the early layout survives intact and it seems that the modernisations were essentially superficial. Those features which are exposed appear to be late C17. The partition between the parlour and potato store/former buttery is close-studded and the half beam against the end wall is chamfered with step-nick stops. In the parlour the crossbeam is boxed in and the fireplace is blocked. The main stair rises from the passage alongside the parlour stack. The balustrade is late C19 but the structure is late C17. There is an original 1-panel door to the cupboard under the stairs. (On the back is written a list of births to the Harris family in the early C18 including information about each baby's weight). The dining room/former hall has plain chamfered crossbeams and the fireplace here is blocked. The kitchen crossbeams are chamfered with scroll-nick stops and the large fireplace here is blocked. The ceiling of the dairy has been lowered in the C20. The roof of the dairy block is carried on side-pegged jointed cruck trusses with lap-jointed collars. The roofspace over the main block is inaccessible although side-pegged jointed crucks show below ceiling level and maybe an A-frame truss over the kitchen.

Listing NGR: ST0493803806

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