Description

BOVEY TRACEY MORETONHAMPSTEAD ROAD (north
SX 87 NW side), Bovey Tracey
Atway Farmhouse, including area
5/81 railing and gate in the cobbled
- area adjoining Atway Cottages
GV II

Farmhouse. C17 or earlier, with later additions. Solid, roughcast walls. Wheat
reed thatch roofs, with a patch of slate at north-west corner; chimneystacks in
the gables, except for 2 later brick stacks on additions at north-east and south-
west ends. Plan consists of a main range at right-angles to the road and a cross-
wing at the rear end, projecting slightly on the south-east. Main range has one
heated room in ground storey with a through-passage next to the cross-wing; latter
has one heated room on the north-east, probably with a minor room behind it. Each
of the 2 heated rooms has an early staircase beside the fireplace. Added wing to
north-east; lean-tos, probably added, behind the older part of the house on north-
west side. 2 storeys, with single-storey lean-to. Principal south-east front of
main range is 2 windows wide. Ground storey has plank door to right and a single
window to left; windows all have C19 2-light wood casements with 2 panes per light.
Both main range and cross-wing have projecting chimneystacks of granite ashlar,
with offsets and tapered tops; the cross-wing stack has an added brick shaft. To
the left of each stack is a slit window lighting a staircase. The gable of main
range, towards the road, has in addition a second-storey window to right of the
stack, this with a C19 2-light wood casement with 2 panes per light; there is a
similar window in the side-wall of the lean-to fronting the road. Gable of cross-
wing has 1 window in each storey to right of stack; casements as in main range,
except that the ground-storey window has transom-lights. The added north-east wing
has at left-hand end a 4-panelled door with cast-iron knocker and 3-pane fanlight;
above it is a wood casement as in main range. Old cobbled surface to south-east,
between the farmhouse and Atway Cottages (q.v.). The C19 garden railings in this
area, and the C19 iron gate fronting the road, are included in the listing.
Interior: ground-storey room in main range has chamfered beam with scroll-stops.
Door from passage to cross-wing has chamfered wood frame, the jambs having scroll-
stops top and bottom. Ground-storey room in cross-wing has chamfered beams; large
fireplace with granite jambs and wood lintel, the latter ovolo-moulded with raised
run-out stops. Staircase to right of fireplace has wood door-frame with cranked
head.
This house and Atway Cottages (q.v.) make an excellent group fronting the
Moretonhampstead Road.

Listing NGR: SX8128879047

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26618796

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