Description

ST 20 SE MEMBURY YARTY LANE
5/417
8.5.67 Yarty Farm House including
Former Bakehouse
immediately south west

II

Large house. Circa early C17. A house on this site was rebuilt in 1626 by Nicholas
Fry, Sheriff of Devon. Appears to have been reduced and partly rebuilt in C18 and
C19. Stone rubble with moulded plinth. Two parallel ranges with pantile roofs with
gabled ends. Two storeys and attics. South garden front: four window range, two
and three-light casements with glazing bars in cambered arch openings. In west
gable end a reused moulded stone four-centred arch doorway. Rebuilt brick ridge
chimney stacks.
Adjoining two storey five window range wing to west, formerly farm buildings, now
incorporated into the house, but situated at lower level. Including former
bakehouse to south west circa C18, stone rubble, hipped and gable-ended pantile roof
with brick chimney stack and cambered arch door frame. Interior of bakehouse has
large open fireplace with ovens. Nicholas Fry's Monument is in the Parish Church of
St John the Baptist qv.

Listing NGR: ST2638902501

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26390638

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014