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Summary

An early 17th century farmhouse.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1106529: GREAT SYMONSBOROUGH FARMHOUSE

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: ST11NW/23
• Old Listed Building Ref (II)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FARMHOUSE (Built, XVII - 1601 AD to 1650 AD (Between))

Full description

Department of Environment, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV334015.

Great symonsborough farmhouse. Farmhouse. Early c17. Roughcast rubble; gable end slate roof. A 2-room through-passage plan house; the right-hand room is the larger of the 2 with an external end stack; the left-hand room may originally have been unheated, but now has an internal end stack. Right-hand extension and rear outshut added later.2 storeys. Exterior. Front: 3-window range; c19 3-light casement windows to first floors; ground floor: 3-light casement window to left-hand room, one of 5 lights to right-hand room; recessed door between. Brick buttressing. Casement windows and a glazed door to right-hand extension. Interior: 2 jointed cruck trusses, the blade resting on ground floor level, morticed and pegged at apex (alcock f2 type); cranked collars; trenched purlins.(doe).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV37182.

Doe/hhr:hemyock/(15/4/1987)36.

Clements, H. A., 1994, Survey of Farmsteads in the Devon Part of the Blackdown Hills, Plan and photo (Report - Survey). SDV344050.

17th century farmhouse.

Devon and Somerset County Councils, 2000-2002, Historic Farmsteads Database, BH122H (Machine readable data file). SDV349681.

No information supplied.

Exeter Archaeology, 2003, East Devon Heathlands Archaeological Survey, 12, Part 1; 87, Part 2: Gazetteer, Site No. 530 (Report - Survey). SDV101648.

Great Symonsborough farmhouse is an early 17th century two room through-passage plan house of Listed Grade II status. The house lies to northwest of the survey area.

Exeter Archaeology, 2003, East Devon Heathlands Archaeological Survey, Site No. 530 (Archive - Survey). SDV358490.

Exeter Archaeology, 2003, East Devon Heathlands Archaeological Survey, Site No. 530 (Report - Survey). SDV359019.

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

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

Great Symonsborough Farmhouse.

Farmhouse. Early 17th century. Roughcast rubble; gable end slate roof. A 2-room through- passage plan house; the right-hand room is the larger of the 2 with an external end stack; the left-hand room may originally have been unheated, but now has an internal end stack. Right-hand extension and rear outshut added later. 2 storeys.

Exterior. Front: 3-window range; 19th century 3-light easement windows to first floors; Ground floor: 3-light casement window to left-hand room, one of 5 lights to right- hand room; recessed door between. Brick buttressing. Casement windows and a glazed door to right-hand extension.

Interior: 2 jointed cruck trusses, the blade resting on ground floor level, morticed and pegged at apex (Alcock F2 type); cranked collars; trenched purlins.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV4655 - Survey of Farmsteads in the Blackdown Hills

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