MSO10633 - Edbrook Farmhouse, Cutcombe (Building)

Farmhouse and adjoining loft over cattle byre. Dated 1607, enlarged and refenestrated late C18-early C19. Flat bedded, random rubble, slate roof stone stacks between first and second bays left at gable end of original building and right at junction with farmbuilding. Plan: 2 cell and cross passage farmhouse set into hillside with one bay addition left and 2-bay farmbuilding right. Farmhouse: 2-storeys, 4-bays, first floor late C18-early C19 leaded iron casements, ground floor left bevelled aris to wall, plank door, wooden casement left of main entrance, plank door with leaded iron casement to right; 2-square headed openings to byre, access to loft assumed to be on right gable end. Small date stone set between third and fourth bays left: RV 1607. Interior: not accessible at time of survey, said to contain chamfered beams with enriched stops and possibly evidence that the building evolved differently from the plan started. [1] English Heritage Listed Building Number: 265321. First Listed on 05/06/1985. [2] 3-cell Cross passage plan. Stone, Render walls. Gabled roof [3] The buildings were visited in June 2012 as part of the rapid condition survey of Exmoor's Listed Buildings 2012-13. They received a BAR score of 6. [4]