Tigley Farmhouse Dartington, England

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DARTINGTON TIGLEY SX76SE Tigley Farmhouse 1/160

GV II

Farmhouse. Circa early to mid C16, remodelled in c17 and extended in C18 and possibly C19, and again in the C20. Local limestone rubble with scantle slate-hanging in the higher right-hand gable end. Steeply pitched slate roof with gable ends. rendered gable end and front lateral stacks. Plan: 3-room and through passage plan with a large unheated lower end room to the left. The hall has a front lateral stack with an oven and the relatively large inner room to the right with the chamber above are both heated from a gable end stack. There is a large single storey porch to the passage front doorway and an adjoining outshut on the front of the lower left end, with a loft above with access from within porch. At rear of the hall there is a 2-storey wing with a gable end stack. Attached to the lower rear corner of the lower end there is an ash house which once had access from inside the house. The house is built on a slope, the ground much lower at the left-hand service end. Development: the house was originally open to the roof probably from end to end and divided by low partitions of which only the hall/inner room screen survives. Of the original roof only the truss over the lower left end and over the passage remain; they are all open trusses smoke-blackened from an open hearth fire, except for the truss over the passage which is relatively clean. This may be because the hall stack was inserted soon after the house was built, while the hall and lower end were still open to the roof. Corroborating this is the very high lintel of the hall fireplace. Alternatively the lintel may have been raised later or the hall floor excavated (note the higher level inner room). The floors were probably inserted in phases, first the higher end, but the flooring of the lower end is less certain; the considerable length of the lower end room, with a ventilation slit in the front wall, crude beam and absence of an early partition on the lower side of the passage suggest a shippon of a longhouse with a loft above. The roof of the shippon would have been blackened only from the open hearth of the hall; therefore the lower end roof truss may be reused from the higher end of the house. The lower end was in domestic use by the C18 for there is a dairy outshut on the front and direct access to an attached ash house of the back. The C17 porch at the front of the through passage is earlier than the adjoining circa C18 dairy outshut. The 2 storey wing behind the hall may also be C18 or even an early C19 addition and probably added when the higher end of the house was reroofed. In the C20 an outshut was added to the back of the lower end overlapping the hall. Exterior: 2 storeys west front; higher end to the right has 2 C20 first floor casements with glazing bars in small openings, similar inner room window on ground floor right and large C19 3-light casement hall window with glazing bars to left; all with timber lintels. There is some disturbed masonry around the hall window. The truncated lateral hall stack has porch to left with side wall of massive masonry with a chamfered plinth. The porch was probably open-fronted and its left side wall demolished and the park incorporated into the lean-to-dairy to the left which was a round corner, C19 rendered shaft to a later stack and C20 3- light casement. Rear elevation: first floor of the lower end has one early C19 3-light casement with leaded panes and a C20 2-light casement. On the ground floor an ash house with steps up to the loading door and clearing hatch at ground level below; its lean-to roof continues to the left over a small C20 outshut. To the left of centre the 2 storey wing has C19 and 3- light casements on its inner side and C19 3-light casement with a hoodmould on its outer side; its gable end has a slightly projecting stack with a red brick shaft. To the left of the main range C19 3-light casements with hollow-chamfered fram