Description

WALKHAMPTON
SX 57 SW
13/135 Lake Farmhouse
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- II

Farmhouse. Circa early-mid C17 with C19 and C20 additions. Rendered rubble walls.
Gable ended slate roof. Axial brick stack.
Plan: Originally appears to have had 2-room plan with central passage. Hall/kitchen
to left of passage heated by an axial stack with winder stairs in a projection at
the front and adjoining window bay. To the right of the passage is a small unheated
service room. The house was considerably extended at the rear in the C19 and
earlier C20.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2-window front, the left-hand side of the house
projects. The 2 left-hand windows are later C19 4 pane sashes, above the ground
floor one is a granite hoodmould. At an intermediate level to the right is a C20
single light casement to the stairs. Immediately to the right of the projection is
the original granite 4-centred chamfered granite doorway with C20 plank door. This
is underneath an open-fronted porch, its roof supported on a stone corbel to the
left and a side wall to the right. To the right is an original hollow chamfered
granite framed light. At left-hand end is single storey C19 wash-house. Later C19
and early C20 L-shaped addition at rear.
Interior: A 4-centred arched chamfered granite doorway leads from the passage into
the left-hand room. In the room are heavy chamfered cross-beams. The wooden winder
stairs survive at the front of the room. The large granite-framed fireplace has had
a C20 fireplace inserted into it but has not been removed.
Despite later additions the interesting original plan of the C17 house survives with
a number of its features preserved.

Listing NGR: SX5317968318

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26465657

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