Description

SX 79 NW SPREYTON

2/260 Stockhay

II

House, formerly small farmhouse and linhay. Mid-late C17 farmhouse, mid C19 linhay,
modernised circa 1970. Plastered cob and stone rubble; stone rubble stack topped
with C20 brick; thatch roof.
Plan and development: 4-room plan cottage facing north-east. The original C17
farmhouse however only occupied the left (south-eastern) 2 rooms. The end room was
the main room (it still is) and has a gable-end stack with the original winder stair
alongside. The small second room (now a study) was originally a dairy/pantry. The
right end 2 rooms have been converted from agricultural buildings. The smaller
inner room (now the kitchen and entrance hall) was formerly a pigsty and the larger
right end room (now studio) was a 2-bay linhay. It is 2 storeys throughout.
Exterior: irregular 5-window front of C20 casements with glazing bars. The right
end pair of first floor windows are in a weatherboarded C20 oriel projection in
front of the former linhay tallet/hayloft. The present front doorway is right of
centre and contains a C20 door behind a contemporary gabled porch. Immediately to
left is the former pigsty feeding hatch which has an internal shutter. In fact it
is oak-framed and 2 sides reuse moulded pieces of C17 origin. The original doorway
(now blocked by a window) was into the left end room. Roof is gable-ended to left
and hipped to right where it continues down over a woodshed outshot. To rear the
old farmhouse section includes a possibly original oak-mullioned 3-light window
containing rectangular panes of old leaded glass.
Interior: the original farmhouse is well-preserved. The main room has a roughly-
chamfered cross beam and the rubble fireplace has a soffit-chamfered and scroll-
stopped oak lintel and contains an oven relined in the C19. Original oak stair and
roof of A-frame trusses with pegged lap-jointed collars. The C19 linhay was
originally open-fronted but now its structure shows on the inside. The crossbeam is
tenoned into a full height oak post and supports the front end of a C19 king post
truss.
An interesting survival of a small C17 house and it is well-preserved.

Listing NGR: SX7011897460

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26466219

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Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)