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SS 60 SW
5/159

SAMPFORD COURTENAY
Middle Cliston

(Formerly listed as The Shaefers)

GV
II

House, formerly farmhouse. Early C17 witn C20 alterations. Rendered cob walls. Thatch roof gabled to right-hand range hipped to left-hand wing. Three brick stacks, one axial to left-hand wing, one at gable end of right-hand range and one set in from the eaves at the rear of the left-hand wing.

Play: L-snaped plan which all appears to be of the same or a similar date judging from the roof trusses. The left-hand range consists of two rooms which may formerly have had a passage between them - the left-hand room is heated by a rear lateral stack, the right-hand room by an axial fireplace which might formerly have backed onto the passage. The right-hand range probably consisted originally of one room but has now been sub-divided to form a staircase. There is no thick wall between the two wings.

Exterior: Two storeys. Asymmetrical L-shaped two-window front. Tall C20 transomed window to right on first floor and smaller diamond leaded pane two-light C20 casement to left. Row of pigeon holes beyond it. C20 flat-roofed conservatory in angle of two wings. Right-hand wing has small-paned C20 four-light casement on first floor and two-light window below to the right. The rear of this range has a circa late C18 five-light leaded pane casement window with narrow square section mullions.

Interior: the left-hand room has very heavy roughly chamfered ceiling beams and a fireplace with a wooden lintel which is chamfered with runout stops. The right-hand room of this range has a very wide fireplace with a chamfered wooden lintel which has straight-cut stops.

Roof Structure: one original truss survives over each range both are face-pegged jointed crucks which are not smoke-blackened.

Listing NGR: SS6190301884

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26440131

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Recommended Books

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)