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Summary

The farmhouse dates to the early-mid 17th century.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1166228: FANCY FARMHOUSE

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FARMHOUSE (Built, XVII - 1601 AD (Between) to 1700 AD (Between))

Full description

Department of Environment, 1988, Dunkeswell, 12 (List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest). SDV324134.

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

Historic England, 2024, National Heritage List for England, 1166228 (National Heritage List for England). SDV365835.

Farmhouse. Early - mid C17, enlarged and partly rearranged in the late C19, modernised circa 1970. Local stone rubble with some late C19 brick dressings; stone rubble stacks topped with C20 brick; slate roof, originally thatch.
Plan and development: 4-room-and-through-passage plan house facing south-south- west, say south. The main rooms are those 2 at the left (west) end with the passage between them. The end room is the principal parlour and it has a gable-end stack. The room the other side of the passage has an axial stack backing onto a small unheated room and, at the right (east) end is a stable (now a workshop). There are 2-storey service outshots across the rear and these include a kitchen with an axial stack. The original part of the house is the 2-room-and-through-passage section at the left (west) end. A straignt join in the front wall between this section and the rest proves that the unheated room and stable were added in the C19. The unheated room was built as a cellar/buttery but has now been converted to domestic use. However the original house must have been larger since the 2 rooms are well-appointed and there are no kitchen or service rooms. Presumably they were in some rear block which has been replaced by the rear outshots. House is 2 storeys throughout.
Exterior: irregular 6-window front. The 3-window section to left (the original house) has early-mid C17 Beerstone windows with ovolo-moulded mullions and hoodmoulds to the ground floor windows. The passage front doorway contains a late C19 part-glazed 4-panel door. The right-hand 3-window section contains C20 casements most with glazing bars. The one over the stable doorway occupies the former hayloft loading hatch. The stable doorway and another into tne former cellar/buttery are C20. The roof is gable-ended.
Interior: the 2-rooms of early-mid C17 house have good quality original features. Both rooms have Beerstone ashlar fireplaces with oak lintels, their soffits shaped as low Tudor arches. The left room fireplace has a chamfered surround and the one in the room right of the passage has a moulded surround. Both rooms have chamfered crossbeams but only those in the left room have scroll stops. There is a small original fireplace in the chamber over the left room. The rear wall of the original house contains an original 2-light Beerstone window containing rectangular panes of ancient leaded glass. (It is now internal). The roof structure over the original section still contains tne original A-frame trusses with pegged dovetail-shaped lap- jointed collars. The apexes have been cut off. The rest of the douse has C19 joinery and other detail and the hayloft floor was rebuilt circa 1970.
Date first listed: 16th March 1988

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