Listed Building: DEWCOMBE (1289268)

COUNTISBURY SS 74 NE 4/17 Dewcombe GV II Farmhouse, now house. Probably early C19 with probably late C19 minor additions. Painted coursed stone rubble, with slate-hung gable end to west. Rendered stone stack with slate weathering and brick cap. Gable-ended graded slate roofs. Plan and development: cruciform plan with arms of equal length and central circular stack. Single rooms in each arm linked by angled passages at corners. Later outshuts in angles to north-west, north-east and south-east. The kitchen is in the west wing and the parlour in the north wing. The South wing was used as a dairy when the house was part of a farm. The staircase rises out of the east wing. 1 storey and attic. Exterior: entrance front to north. 1-light C19 wooden casements to ground floor and attic, that to ground floor with segmental brick-arched head. Left-hand outshut with small C19 wooden 1-light casement to left and C20 wooden casement to right with wooden lintel and late C20 2-leaf boarded door to left with wooden lintel. Rear of right-hand wing with 3-light wooden attic casement and ground-floor 2-light wooden casement. Gable-end of rear wing with 2-light wooden attic casement and ground- floor 1-light wooden casement. Interior: plain, with largely C18 joinery. The cross is an unusual domestic plan form, especially for so modest a house. Listing NGR: SS7602649054