Description

73/0/10020
07-DEC-04

YEOVIL
RIMPTON
Woodhouse Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. C17; remodelled and extended in the C18 and C19. Rendered cob walls. Steeply pitched gable-ended roof clad in clay patent tiles. Brick gable-end stacks.
PLAN: 2-room plan, parlour on left [west] and kitchen on right [east], both heated from gable-end stacks; integral pantry outshut behind kitchen and larger dairy outshut behind parlour probably added in the C18. Circa late C18 or early C19 outbuilding on left [west] end and C19 outshut on right [east] end.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. Symmetrical 3-bay south front; 3-light casements on the ground floor and 2-light casements on the first floor, all with horizontal glazing bars and C19; central doorway with late C20 plank door. Outshut on right with lean-to roof and C20 plank door; outbuilding on left with plank door and 4-pane window; small C18 2-light attic windows in end gables. Rear [north] main roof carried down over outshuts, the original smaller outshut on left projects and circa C18 painted brick outshut on right with brick stack in angle; various casements.
INTERIOR: Former kitchen on right has deeply chamfered cross-beam with cyma stops and large fireplace with unchamfered dressed limestone jambs, large slightly cambered and chamfered bressumer without stops and a brick oven. Smaller parlour to left with deeply chamfered cross-beam with cyma stops, fireplace blocked by C20 tiled chimneypiece and cupboard to side with panelled doors. 6-panel doors on ground floor and C18 and C19 plank doors on first floor. C18 5-bay tenoned-purlin collar-truss roof with lapped and pegged collars.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26670519

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