Description

OTTERTON FORE STREET (north side),
SY 0885
Otterton
7/159 Watering Farmhouse
30.6.61
GV II
House, former farmhouse. Mid C19. Plastered brick; brick stacks with plastered
brick chimney shafts; slate roof.
L-shaped house. Main block faces south-south-east, say south, onto Fore Street. it
has a 2-room plan with a central through passage and a rear 1-room plan kitchen
block at right angles to rear of the right (eastern) room. The stairs rise from the
back of the passage to right against the rear wall of the right front room. Front
rooms have end stacks and rear block has gable end stacks. Small outshot, probably
secondary, in the angle of the 2 wings. House is 2 storeys.
Symmetrical 3-window front of C19 casements with glazing bars arranged around the
central doorway which contains a C20 door and an overlight with glazing bars. Deep
plain eaves and roof is hipped each end.
Interior contains a good deal of original joinery detail.
Watering Farmhouse is one of a number of attractive houses along Otterton Fore
Street.

Listing NGR: SY0823085295

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26389741

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)