Description

RATTERY -
SX 76 SW

6/49 Yelland Farmhouse
including outbuilding
- adjoining south west

- II

House with adjoining stable with loft, formerly a farmhouse. Circa early C17,
altered in C20. Slate rubble. Slate hung south west end wall. Concrete tile
and slate roof with gabled and hipped ends. Plan uncertain but appears to be
the centre (hall) range of a larger house, two rooms with wide central passage
containing later stairs and partitions. Two storey entrance porch to fornt
of passage. Chimney stack at right hand (north east) gable end and axial stack
near left hand (south west) end which has stable addition. Two storeys. Four
window range. C20 casements. Right hand with concrete lintel, left hand segmental
brick arches. Central C17 two storey gabled porch with dressed slate round
arch and massive wide C17 nail-studded plank door with covermoulds, original
doorframe ovolo moulded on the inside only and without stops. Stable adjoining
left (north west) end with loft door reached by external stone stairs with integral
dog kennel below. Lean-to at right hand (north east) end. Interior: Part
of plank and muntin screen survives on right hand hall side of very wide passage,
which has later stairs and partition inserted. The screen on the left side
of passage has been removed but the head beam is morticed for screen. Hall
has chamfered beams with step stops and similar joists, many of which have been
removed. Fireplace in gable end has been altered and now has two red brick
arches. Roof has seven trusses, the apices are probably morticed, two tiers
of threaded purlins, the lower purlins visible in first floor rooms. The collars
are missing but the principals are dovetailed for lap-joints.

Listing NGR: SX7414162706

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26401200

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Recommended Books

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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)