Description

GITTISHAM
SY 19 NW

7/132 Combe Farm Farmhouse
-
II

Farmhouse of the home farm to Combe House (q.v.). Probably early C18 with C20
renovations. Stone rubble with a slate roof, hipped at ends, roofs of rear wings
hipped at ends; axial stack with brick shaft to main range, rear left wing with end
stack of handmade brick.
Plan: U plan: a south-facing main range with rear left and right wings and entrances
both on the south front and west side of the west wing. Later outshut between the
wings.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3 window south front with a C20 gabled porch to
right of centre. 3 first floor small pane timber 2-light C19 or C20 casements, 2 2-
liht ground floor transomed casements with small panes, possibly C19 or C20 copies or
earlier windows. The right hand window on the ground floor has been replaced with a
C20 iron frame casement. Symmetrical 3-bay left (west) return with a recessed half-
glazed C19 front door in the centre, 2-light transomed windows to left and right and
3 first floor 2-light C20 casements, the windows similar to those on the south
front.
Interior: Not fully inspected but the west wing is plain.

Listing NGR: SY1433897575

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26390235

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)