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Summary

House, originally a farmhouse, circa mid 17th century with later 19th/20th century additions.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1165728: DIGGAPORT HOUSE

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX58NW/122
• Old Listed Building Ref (II): 94355

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FARMHOUSE (XVII to XX - 1601 AD to 2000 AD (Between))

Full description

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV266914.

Doe/hhr:sourton/(7/9/1987)77.

Department of Environment, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV331164.

Diggaport house. House. Originally farmhouse. Circa mid c17 with later c19/c20 additions. Local stone rubble walls with some granite dressings. Gable ended slate roof.3 rubble stacks, one at right-hand gable end, one axial and one stack at gable end of wing. Plan: originally had 2 rooms plan possibly with central passage. The right-hand room was heated by a gable end stack, the left-hand room by an axial stack. In the later c17 a 1-room wing was added in front of the left-hand room heated by a gable end stack. In the c19 a large dairy was built at the left end of the original house. Some internal alterations were made when the house was modernised in the c20.2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2 window front with wing projecting from the left end which also has 2 windows. The right-hand range has c19 2-light small-panel casements and a c20 panelled door to the left. The wing has c20 1- and 2-light small paned casements. Its 1st floor windows are dormers. Attached at the end of the wing is a long c mid c19 shippon which has a c20 glazed door to the right and a wide doorway to its left with a dressed granite segmental arch. Loading hatch above and ventilation slits. Interior: the 3 c17 fireplaces survive, of varying forms. That in the right-hand room has a chamfered wooden lintel, with probably hollow step stops. The central room fireplace is more elaborate with an ovolo-moulded wooden lintel and roll-moulded granite jambs. The fireplace in the wing is granite framed and roughly chamfered. The roof trusses are straight principals and relatively recent (doe).

Ordnance Survey, 2015, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV357601.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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