Description

MABE
SW 73 SE
3/73 Lower Spargo Farmhouse including
adjoining outbuilding
GV II
Farmhouse, including adjoining outbuilding. Parts of walls circa late C16 or C17,
mostly rebuilt circa early C18. Painted granite rubble with some granite dressings
including some reused C17 chamfered masonry. Slurried scantle slate roof with very
large granite rubble stacks over the gable ends.
Plan: 2-room-plan house plus later service rooms in outshut or lean-to (rear not
inspected) at rear. Central through passage used to have C16 or C17 4-centred
arched-chamfered doorway at the rear (now resited at Higher Spargo, qv). Outbuilding
at right angles in front at the left-hand side.
Exterior: Symmetrical 5-window south-east front with central doorway. C20 door and
windows in original openings. Window opening right of doorway is blocked.
Outbuilding has some reused C17 chamfered masonry. The wall returning parallel to
the front of the house has C18 triangular copings.
Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SW7575232829

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26555040

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)