Description

SX 55 SE YEALMPTON WEST PITTEN
4/235
29/3/60 Shippen approximately
30 metres south west of
West Pitten Farmhouse

GV II

Original use uncertain, currently used as cowhouse with loft above. Circa C16.
Slate rubble with granite quoins. Corrugated iron roof with gabled ends. The south
side has ground floor doorways with large wooden lintels and one loft door. Doorway
on right hand projecting with window slit above. Left hand of south wall rebuilt in
concrete. North side facing yard has ventilation slits and single storey lean-to
with single-light hollow chamfered granite window frame. Similar two-light window in
east end with two ventilation slits above, and granite four-centred arch doorway with
chamfer and pyramid stops to the jambs. At west end large elliptically arched
chamfered granite doorwway to loft. Interior: large stopped chamfered ceiling
beams.
The original house was destroyed by fire and this building is one of a range of
contemporary farm buildings on three sides of a yard. The existing farm house on the
fourth (east) side was built circa late C19 or early C20 and occupies a site near
that of the original house.

Listing NGR: SX5821654291

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26402321

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)