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Summary

Farmhouse dating to the early 16th century. It was originally an open hall house and smoke-blackened timbers from the open hearth fire survive in the roof. The hall was floored over in the 17th century.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II*) 1162129: TOWN TENEMENT FARMHOUSE

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: ST00SW13
• Old DCC SMR Ref: ST00SW/22
• Old Listed Building Ref (II*)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FARMHOUSE (Built, XVI to XVII - 1501 AD (Between) to 1700 AD (Between))

Full description

Hulland, C., 1982, List of Historic Houses (Un-published). SDV75440.

Visited but not recorded.

Department of Environment, 1988, Clyst Hydon (List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest). SDV345579.

Early C16 with major later C16c and C17 improvements. Three-room-cross-passage plan.

Tyers, C + Hurford, M. + Arnold, A. + Howard, R.E. + Thorp, J., 2009, Dendrochronological Research in Devon: Phase II, 7-8, building description, photos (Report - Interim). SDV348234.

A cob-walled farmhouse of typical three-room and cross passage plan with the service room, now the kitchen at the eastern end and the hall and inner room/parlour to the west of the cross passage. The house is now all two storeys but originally only the western end was floored. The original late medieval roof structure survives carried on four joined cruck trusses. That part of the roof over the solar is clean but the rest is smoke-blackened.
Of the six samples were taken from six roof timbers, four proved to be elm and so were unsuitable for dendrochronological analysis. The ring sequence of the remaining two could not be dated.

Ordnance Survey, 2024, Mastermap 2024 (Cartographic). SDV365834.

Historic England, 2024, National Heritage List for England, 1162129 (National Heritage List for England). SDV365835.

Town Tenement Farmhouse. Early C16 with major later C16 and C17 improvements, some C19 modernisation. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings, much brick patching in the rear wall; stone rubble and cob stacks topped with c19 and C20 bitumen-brick; coated slate roof, formerly thatch.
The original early C16 house was an open hall house. Only the inner room was floored over at the time and then the chamber jettied into the upper end of the hall. The inner room itself was slightly smaller and unheated; probably a dairy or buttery. The rest of the house was open to the roof, divided by low partitions and heated by an open hearth fire. The lower end appears to have been lengthened at an early stage since there are 2 phases of the smoke-blackened roof. Around the mid or late C16 an oak-framed fire hood or smoke bay was built over the hall fireplace backing onto the passage. The service end was probably floored over about the same time but there is no evidence of this since that end was much altered in the late c1? when the service end room was converted to a parlour with a new gable-end stack. The hall itself was floored over in the early - mid C17. At the same time that the parlour was built the smoke hood/smoke bay was replaced by a stone rubble stack and a new kitchen fireplace was built below. In the C19 a stair was inserted alongside the passage taking out part of the C17 parlour. It was probably at this time that the parlour was converted to kitchen use and the former hall/late C17 kitchen became the dining room. Also the inner room was given a stack and converted to a parlour.
See Listing Description for full details.
Date first listed: 24th October 1988

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV5623 - Dendrochronological Research in Devon, Phase II

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