MSO10492 - Wayside, High Street, Monksilver (Building)

Farmhouse, now cottage. C16, probably enlarged C17, altered C19. Roughcast over rubble, slate roof, brick stacks gable ends and in East wing. Plan: 2 cell and cross passage, East wing added soon after, single storey addition to facade right. 2 storeys, 2 bays; steeply chamfered 2-light casement left, C19 3-light casement right, groundfloor C20 5- and 4-light casements flanking central doorway, 4-centred arch chamfered stone doorway, C19 studded plank door. Single storey random rubble addition right with C20 window. Interior: plank and muntin screen of uncertain age to right of cross passage, another 4 centred stone arch doorway at rear of cross passage, wooden Tudor arched head to left of cross passage and another in rear wall of left room giving acess to East wing. Perhaps this was originally only an outshut but beams in both wing and main block are chamfered with steps and runout stops. Similar to Court Hall (qv) in the unusual appearance of stone 4-centred arch doorway and the steeply chamfered 2-light window. Appears to have been reroofed in C19. [1] English Heritage Listed Building Number: 264784. First Listed on 21/12/1984. [2] 2-cell Cross passage plan. Stone, Render, roughcast and pebbledash walls. Gabled roof [3] A collection of internal and external photographs was taken of the building before commencement of works in relation to planning application 6/23/95/101LB. [4] The building was visited in June 2013 as part of the rapid condition survey of Exmoor's Listed Buildings 2012-13. It received a BAR score of 6. [5]