Description

YARCOMBE
ST 20 NE
8/173 Panshayne Farmhouse
-
- II
Farmhouse. Early-mid Cl7, renovated in 1845. Exposed local stone and flint rubble;
stone rubble stacks with stone rubble chimneyshafts with limestone ashlar quoins;
slate roof since 1845, thatch before that.
Plan and development: 4-room-and-through-passage plan house facing south and built
down a hillslope. The 2 rooms downhill to, left (south) are 2 parlours with an axial
stack between them serving back-to-back fireplaces; the central one is larger than
the end one. In the centre is the passage. To right of it is a small unheated room
which was formerly a dairy or buttery. Uphill at the right(north) end is a dining
room but the gable-end stack here serves only the first floor chamber. There is a
kitchen in a single storey block to rear of the dining room and it has a stack in
the back wall. The house was refurbished and enlarged in 1845 (according to a
datestone on the porch). A straight join in the front wall shows that the end
parlour is a C19 extension, so too is the rear kitchen. Thus the C17 house occupied
the remaining 3 rooms of the main block with a parlour to left of the passage and
probably a kitchen at the right end, although, if so, the stack has been demolished
and the end wall rebuilt. The house is 2 storeys.
Exterior: regular but not symmetrical 4-window front. The ground floor windows are
C20 casements with glazing bars and the first floor windows are casements containing
rectangular panes of leaded glass; these date from 1845. The 3 ground floor windows
of the original C17 section have flat stone arches over. The passage front doorway
is slightly right of centre and it contains a C19 part-glazed plank door. The
gabled porch has Hamstone quoins and an elliptical headed outer arch with a
projecting keystone which is inscribed TTFE Drake Bart 1845. The chain roof is
hipped to left and gable-ended to right.
Interior is largely the result of the 1845 modernisation. Nevertheless the layout
of the C17 house appears to survive largely intact. The right end room has a plain
chamfered crossbeam. The original parlour has a good 9-panel ceiling of richly
moulded beams. The secondary parlour has a reused C17 axial beam; it is chamfered
with step stops. The roof was not inspected but since the trusses do not show on
the first floor and the present roof has a low pitch the structure is believed to be
C19.

Listing NGR: ST2526809144

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26462660

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