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Summary

Badlake. Plans and plates given. Built of cob and rubble masonry, reinforced with stone facing. Main house of 15th century with major alterations in 16th century. Traditional plan. A striking feature is a slightly tapered, round chimney top above a gabled breast on the south wall. Round chimneys common in somerset, but rare in devon. The 15th century porch door is lightly moulded with a roll between two hollows. The left jamb with the lintel is carved from a single piece of oak. The porch ceiling has a central chamfered and stepped stopped beam with close-set square joists. A small window with a wooden light with trefoil head, pierced through a single slab of oak is a unique survival (alcock and hulland).

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SS82NE/2
• Old Listed Building Ref (II*)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FARMHOUSE (Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1750 AD (Between))

Full description

Alcock, N. W. + Hulland, C., Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV134813.

Badlake. Plans and plates given. Built of cob and rubble masonry, reinforced with stone facing. Main house of 15th century with major alterations in 16th century. Traditional plan. A striking feature is a slightly tapered, round chimney top above a gabled breast on the south wall. Round chimneys common in somerset, but rare in devon. The 15th century porch door is lightly moulded with a roll between two hollows. The left jamb with the lintel is carved from a single piece of oak. The porch ceiling has a central chamfered and stepped stopped beam with close-set square joists. A small window with a wooden light with trefoil head, pierced through a single slab of oak is a unique survival (alcock and hulland).

NMR, CITING DOE, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV77877.

Three-room-and-cross-passage plan (nmr, citing doe).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV77878.

Alcock, n. + hulland, c. /tda/104(1972)40-46 pl.3-7 fig.3/devon farmhouses part 4: some medieval houses in east and north devon.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV77879.

Osa=ss82ne7(plan).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV77880.

Alcock, n. W. /cruck construction(cba res rep 42)/(1981)112.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV77881.

Des=hulland, c. /list of historic houses/(1982)/in smr.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV77882.

Gover, j. E. B. + mawer, a. + stenton, f. M. /the place-names of devon/(1931)337.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV77883.

Doe/hhr:west anstey/(-/9/1987)38-9.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV77884.

Cherry, b. + pevsner, n. /the buildings of england: devon/(1989)898.

Gover, J. E. B. + Mawer, A. + Stenton, F. M., 1931, The Place-Names of Devon: Part One (Monograph). SDV1312.

Jointed cruck recorded (alcock 1981, citing hulland). Full survey report deposited in westcountry studies library (hulland). Shown on donn's map of 1765 (mawer et al).

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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