Listed Building: HIGHER CHERITON FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING FARMBUILDINGS TO NORTH WEST AND SOUTH EAST (1212834)

BRENDON CHERITON SS 74 NW 3/4 Higher Cheriton Farmhouse and - adjoining farmbuildings to north- west and south-east GV II Farmhouse and adjoining shippons. Early to mid C17 or possibly earlier, partly demolished probably in the late C17 or early C18 and porch probably added at the same time, extended probably in the C18 and eaves raised and farmbuildings added probably in the early to mid C19. Coursed rubblestone, cement-rendered to front and right-hand end. Rendered stacks, end stacks to left with weatherings. Gable-ended slate roof. Plan and development: 3-room-and-through-passage plan facing south-west with lower end to right; hall with axial stack backing on to wide through-passage and inner room with end stack to left. Service room demolished probably in the late C17 or early C18, passage entrance blocked and new entrance with large porch added in front of former hall, and parlour with integral end stack and entrance to front added at upper left end. Former hall now kitchen (July 1987), with winder stair in front of stack and probably C18 lean-to dairy to rear of kitchen and former through-passage. It is possible that the house was formerly an open hall, floored in the C17 and possibly the service end demolished and porch added at the same time. No evidence for this was noted at the time of the survey (July 1987) and the roof space was inaccessible. An alternative explanation of the plan would be that it was a longhouse, the present lower-end shippon is later than the house but could have been rebuilt. Flanking adjoining farmbuildings probably C19 shippon to right and late C19 addition to left (see straight joint). 2 storeys. Exterior: asymmetrical front, 4 first floor 2-light C19 wooden casements and 2 to ground floor, that to hall with weathering, and that to right lighting former through-passage. Boarded C19 door off-centre to right with pegged wooden frame. Large probably C18 gabled-porch with segmental-arched opening with lean-to privy adjoining front of kitchen to left. C20 half-glazed door to left with C20 gabled porch, left-hand farmbuilding with pair of large C20 boarded doors and right-hand shippon with boarded door to left and rear wish. 2-leaf boarded door to right and vent to left. Interior: kitchen (probably former hall) with pair of chamfered cross-beams (chamfered wall half-beams to each room too). Boarded door to dairy at rear of kitchen (opposite porch) has probably C17 chamfered wooden frame with mason's mitres. Former through-passage to right with doorway to dairy at rear (former rear entrance) and 2 blocked doorways to former service rooms (now demolished). The reveals of the front window extend to the floor, suggesting that this was formerly a doorway and supporting the interpretation of this space as the former through- passage. Listing NGR: SS7379346713