Description

BUCKLAND-IN-THE-MOOR
SX 77 NW
6/36 Bowden Farmhouse
23.8.55
GV II*

Longhouse. Late medieval with additions. Granite rubble. Slated roof, half-hipped
at right-hand end; front slope of roof of house part thatched. Granite chimney with
thatch weatherings and tapered top on centre of ridge. Old chimney with thatch
weatherings on left-hand gable. C18 granite chimney with attached brick shaft in
rear wall, off centre to right. Plan has through-passage with hall and inner room
to left, kitchen and shippon to right; the kitchen clearly occupies one end of the
original shippon. Hall fireplace backs on to through-passage; kitchen fireplace is
in rear wall. C18 or C19 entrance porch with chamfer over. 2 storey, with single-
storey additions. House part is 3 windows wide; C20 wood and metal casements without
glazing bars. Entrance-porch is gabled with decorative slate-hanging on the verges;
shouldered-head wood inner doorway, probably medieval encased in C19 panels. To
left of porch a shallow rectangular projection with pent roof, possibly a former
stair turret. Shippon to right has 2 ventilation slits, the left-hand slit blocked
to insert kitchen. Lean-to linhay, its posts now infilled with stone rubble, in
front of left-hand side of shippon. Projecting at right-angles from right-hand side
a range of pigsties.
Interior has preserved its C19 atmosphere remarkably well, with most of the old
plaster wall-surfaces; few early features exposed, although these are likely to
exist. Roof trusses have short curved feet; roof space not accessible.

Listing NGR: SX7269873673

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17535886

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)