Listing Text

CLYST ST GEORGE
SX 98 NE
2/5 Marianne Pool Farmhouse
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- II

Farmhouse. C17, enlarged mainly in the C19. Roughcast cob on stone footings;
hipped thatched roof. Formerly a 3-room, cross-passage plan house, extended at both
ends with a C19 rear wing. The gabled porch marks the position of the passage; hall
(to the right) heated by external rear lateral stack; inner-room heated by an axial
(originally an end) stack; extended service end with internal end stack; present
right-hand end stack a late-C19 insertion. All stacks with brick shafts. 2
storeys.
Front: 6-window range with a well preserved set of C19 casements, mostly of 3
lights, all, except the 2 ground-floor windows to the left-hand side, with transoms,
2 panes per light below the transom, each upper pane subdivided in 4. Pentice roof
over kitchen window and door (to left); passage door under tiled, gabled, brick
porch. 2 and 3-light casement windows to rear, mostly C19, 1 with leaded panes and
coloured glass.
Interior: hall with ceiling beam, chamfered, ovolo moulding with fillet and scroll
stops.
Roof: 3 C17 trusses, morticed and pegged at apex, collars notched and lapped, the
purlins and ridge-piece threaded.

Listing NGR: SX9868088833