Description

SS 92 SE MOREBATH

6/117 Chiltern
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II

Farmhouse, disused at time of survey(1986). Circa early C17 with a C19 outshut. Cob
and stone rubble; slate roof (formerly thatched), gable at ends; right end stack,
rear left lateral stacks.
Plan: Interior not inspected at survey but a ground plan and description by Hulland,
dated 1976, suggests that the early C17 arrangement was a single depth block with 2
principal rooms, one on either side of a lobby entrance with a pantry to the rear of
the lobby. The principal room was the larger right hand room with a stair adjacent
to the stack and rising behind it and a doorway into the pantry. In the C19 an
outshut containing service rooms was added and, possibly at the same date, a new
stair was inserted in the former pantry facing the entrance.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical front with 2 first floor and 3 ground floor
windows; gabled porch on front to left of centre. Fenestration of 2- and 3-light
small pane casements.
Interior: Described by Hulland as having plank and muntin screens flanking what is
now the entrance passage. Ground floor rooms have deeply-chamfered step-stopped
cross beams; crank-arched doorframes to stair in right hand room and doorway to
former pantry.
Roof: said to be 'A' frame main trusses.
Hulland, Charles, "Chiltern, Morebath", survey record including ground plan dated
1976 deposited in West Country studies library.

Listing NGR: SS9584223749

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26462656

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