Description

STOCKLEIGH POMEROY
SS 80 SE
10/238
- Lower Westwood Farmhouse
GV
II

Farmhouse, divided into house and cottage, now one house again. Probably C16 or
C17, remodelled C18 and C19. Rendered and painted cob walls. Wheat-reed thatched
roof with brick chimney over large external rubble breast to left gable end, brick
stack over right gable end, now party wall with C19 extension or remodelling at
lower level, right, with dry slate roof; wide verge with exposed purlin ends and
brick gable stack. 3 room, cross- or through-passage plan with rebuilt or reduced
lower end (right) deepened probably C19 to main part to create narrow rear service
rooms plus rear wing at lower end. 2 storeys. Nearly symmetrical, 2 window south
front to house and 1 window front to lower end. House has doorway off-centre to
left with top glazed 6-panel door and part-glazed C19/C20 porch with hipped thatch
roof. Old 3-light casements with 8 panes per light with 1st floor windows set
slightly to right. Lower end has doorway to left and old 2-light casements with
glazing bars.
Interior not inspected but said to be little altered and to retain a possibly
jointed cruck oak roof structure.

Listing NGR: SS8674503035

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26543000

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)