Description

WIDECOMBE-IN-
SX 77 NW THE-MOOR
2/177 Jordan Manor
23.8.55
GV II

Farmhouse, believed to be a former longhouse. Early C17, with later additions.
Granite rubble. Thatched roof, hipped at left-hand end. Small rendered
chimneystack on centre of ridge and another on right-hand gable. Present plan has
cross-passage (with blocked door at rear end); one long room (formerly 2 rooms) to
right and another long room (believed to have been the shippon) to left. Added rear
wing to right. 2 storeys. 7-window front. C19 wood casement windows with glazing-
bars. Upper-storey windows have chamfered and stopped wood lintels; the 2 right-
hand ground-storey windows have C19 segmental arches of red brick. Single-storeyed
stone entrance-porch with thatched pent-roof and segmental-arched stone lintel;
stone seat inside and 7-panelled C19 door, the 3 lowest panels flush. To right of
porch a small rectangular stair turret, probably a later addition. To right of
stair turret a 1769 datestone. To left of porch a granite dog-kennel with iron
hinges and catch for a door; kennel has a flat slab of stone for a roof, supported
by a similar slab on the left and 2 stone uprights on the right.
Interior: hall fireplace, backing on to through-passage, has chamfered wood lintel.
Upper-floor beam next to it is double ovolo-moulded and has scroll-stops with bar.
2 other beams beyond it are chamfered with scroll-stops. No structural evidence of
a former partition. C18 or early C19 roof-timbers.

Listing NGR: SX7006575055

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26534688

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