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Summary

A former farmhouse dating to the late 14th or early 15th century with later extensions and alterations. The southern end was rebuilt and extended in the 19th century and a new roof added.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1306497: CULM DAVY FARMHOUSE

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: ST11NW/14
• Old Listed Building Ref (II)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FARMHOUSE (Built, XIV to XV - 1301 AD (Between) to 1500 AD (Between)) + Sci.Date

Full description

Beacham, P., 1984, Culm Davy Farmhouse, File 23/7 (Correspondence). SDV58236.

A late medieval farmhouse of very superior status with post-medieval additions. A fine medieval roof structure survives with massive timbers on jointed crucks with wind braces. The central truss is arch-braced. The original house had an open hall divided from a chamber at the upper end by a closed truss, which is timber framed with wattle and cob daub infilling. This upper chamber was unheated, but the roof structure over the rest of the building is smoke- blackened. A fine pointed headed arch through the closed truss partition gives a 1450-1500 date for the whole house, which has three-room cross-passage plan. Later changes follow the typical pattern of flooring over the chamber, lower end and then the hall with other alterations, which are briefly noted.

Department of Environment, 1987, Hemyock, 35 (List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest). SDV36975.

Detached house, formerly a farmhouse. Late C15 or early C16 with later extensions and alterations. Plastered rubble, probably with some cob; gable end slate roof. Originally a 3-room through-passage plan house of jointed cruck construction; the rest of the list description is drawn from the above letter since the interior was inaccessible at the time of the re-survey visit.

Devon and Somerset County Councils, 2000-2002, Historic Farmsteads Database, BH120H (Machine readable data file). SDV349681.

No information supplied.

Tyers, C + Hurford, M. + Arnold, A. + Howard, R.E. + Thorp, J., 2009, Dendrochronological Research in Devon: Phase II, 12-13, building description, photos (Report - Interim). SDV348234.

The farmhouse which faces west onto a walled garden is of two main periods. The oldest, northern end dates to the medieval period while the southern end was rebuilt in the 19th century. The northern end retains its medieval three room and cross passage plan with a hall and inner room at the uphill, north end and a service room to the south of the cross passage. Above the inner room was a first floor chamber. The other rooms and cross passage were open to the roof. The house underwent changes and improvements during the 16th and 17th centuries and then in the 19th century the southern end was rebuilt and extended. This work included slightly raising the walls and building a new slate roof over the old thatch roof.
The results of a dendrochronological analysis undertaken on timbers from the roof of northern part of the house provided an estimated felling date of 1396-1421, suggesting that this end of the building was built in the late 14th or early 15th century.

Ordnance Survey, 2013, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV350786.

English Heritage, 2013, National Heritage List for England (National Heritage List for England). SDV350785.

Culm Davy Farmhouse. Detached house, formerly a farmhouse. Late 15th century or early 16th century with later extensions and alterations. Plastered rubble, probably with some cob; gable end slate roof. Originally a 3-room, through-passage plan house of jointed cruck construction, the higher end to the right of the passage. The hall and service end were open to the roof for the roof timbers here are smoke-blackened; the inner room appears always to have been unheated or of 2 storeys (or both) and divided from the hall by a partition that rises from ground floor level to the apex of the roof. Floors and stacks inserted in late 16th century or 17th century: hall heated by axial stack backing on to passage; service end heated by an end stack, which is now axial by virtue of a later extension at this end. 2 storeys.
Exterior. Front: 5-window range. All casement windows, including 4 to the ground floor, are 20th century.
Interior : (inaccessible at time of the survey visit; the details of the interior given here are drawn from a summary is the Devon County Council Sites and Monuments Register of a letter by Peter Beacham, Historic Buildings Officer, ref. 23/7). Massive roof timbers on jointed crucks, with wind braces, the central truss (presumably over the hall) with arched braces. Closed truss between hall and inner room, timber framed with wattle and daub infilling. A pointed arched doorway pierces the partition.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV5623 - Dendrochronological Research in Devon, Phase II

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