Description

BRIXHAM

SX9155 HORSEPOOL STREET, Higher Brixham
1946-1/6/115 (East side)
10/01/75 No.25
Greenover Farmhouse including front
garden walls, gate, pump and barn

GV II

Farmhouse, now private house. Early or mid C17; possibly
earlier. Solid rendered walls; left wing of exposed stone
rubble. Slated roof, corrugated iron on rear lean-to; 2 large
rendered chimneys projecting from front wall; tapered caps
heightened at a later date. 3 later rendered chimneys on right
wing; 1 on left wing.
Plan: 3-room and through-passage; hall and parlour now
combined. Full-length rear lean-to, possibly original.
Projecting cross-wing at either end, very likely later
additions; that to right is part of the old house, that to
left converted in 1990-1 from what was probably the
threshing-barn. Attached to left side of barn is a lean-to
with rounded pillar at front end, possibly a formerly
open-fronted cartshed. At rear of barn is a lean-to with 2
small compartments (possibly pigsties) and loft over; said to
have been an apple loft.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Main range 3 windows wide. Front doorway
off-centre to right, has plank door with ornate Gothic iron
knocker. To right is a second doorway with plank door,
probably a later addition since the side of the wing has been
cut away to give access to it. Above both doors a lean-to
wooden hood with slated roof. Windows have 3-light wood
casements with 6 panes per light; those in ground storey have
L-hinges; those in upper storey have slate-hung gables. Wing
to right has no windows in gable-end. Its left side wall has
an 8-paned fixed wood sash in ground storey and a 3-light wood
casement with 6-panes per light and slate-hung gable above. At
left-hand end of ground storey is a set-back section of
walling with another 8-paned fixed wood sash; the lower left
pane was formerly hinged, possibly for the sale of milk.
Wing to left has inserted doorway and window in ground storey
of gable-end; original ventilation slit above. Left side wall
has large central opening, probably the threshing-barn door;
to right of it is a large window, possibly a former
loading-hatch. In right side wall is a former doorway (now
blocked and converted into a window); the front wall of the
house has been cut back to make way for it; probably it was
the rear door of the threshing floor. Rear wall has 2 wood
casement windows, 1 with 3 panes per light, the other with 8
panes per light. The supposed pigsties have plank doors with
strap-hinges.
INTERIOR: to right of through-passage a stud-and-panel
partition, the studs lightly moulded in C17/C18 fashion;
similar panelling at stairhead. The 2 left-hand ground-storey
rooms have chamfered step-stopped joists running from front to
back; no beams. Rear wall of first left-hand room, dividing it
from lean-to, is of thick wooden studs evidently designed to
be lathed over rather than filled with wattle and daub. Roof
of main range appears to have been mostly rebuilt, probably in
C19, but three C17 trusses survive at right-hand end;
through-purlins, slots for former ridge, collars pegged to
faces of principals; gouged carpenter's marks, including an
unusual one in the shape of an Arabic 4. The feet of the
trusses rise from the wall-tops, where they are boxed in.
Subsidiary features: garden has stone rubble front wall with
chamfered coping. Rises to form gate piers with flat stone
caps opposite front door. Iron gate with 5 round horizontal
bars; 2 diagonal braces; side-pieces scrolled at the top. Left
side of path to front door has low stone rubble wall with a
flat stone coping; iron gate to garden, pairs of uprights
joined at the top to form hoops. The rear section of wall has
a chamfered red sandstone coping with a three-quarter-round
moulding at the top. On the right side of path is a short
stretch of similar walling. Under the path itself is a capped
well which serves a pump in front of right wing. Pump has an
old square lead top with initials W B and date 1746. Said
formerly to have been called Hill Farm.

Listing NGR: SX9186655299

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26505068

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