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Date of photo: 2024	Picture source: Ian Chapman
The New Inn is now in residential use. A grade-II listed building.
Listed building details:
The New Inn GV II House, former public house. Probably late C16 - early C17 but most of the house was rebuilt in the late C17 - early C18. The walls are plastered but apparently contain sections of local stone and flint rubble, cob, brick, concrete block and timber framing; thatch roof. Plan and development: essentially a U-plan building. The main block faces south- west and it has a 3-room lobby entrance plan. At the right end is a parlour. The largest room in the centre is a former kitchen. Kitchen and parlour share an axial stack between which serves back-to-back fireplaces and the lobby entrance is also between the rooms in front of the stack. At the left (north-west) end is a small unheated room and behind that is the main stair. 1-room plan service blocks project at right angles to rear of each end. The left one was an unheated cellar/cider house/pantry with bed chamber above, and the right one was the stables but has now been brought into domestic use. The house is essentially the result of a large scale late C17 - early C18 rebuild. Since the outer walls contain such a variety of building materials it seems likely that some is earlier than the late C17 - early C18. Also there is some reused pieces of early C17 carpentry. Also since the left (north-west) end wall is timber-framed above first floor level it may be that the house once continued further in that direction. The left service wing is probably late C17 - early C18 but the former stable is C19. In the C20 the narrow courtyard between the 2 rear wings was roofed over. House is 2 storeys. Exterior: regular but not symmetrical 4-window front of old, maybe C18, casements containing rectangular panes of leaded glass. The front lobby entrance doorway is right of centre and it contains a C20 part-glazed door under a flat hood on shaped timber brackets. Behind the plaster the front wall is stone rubble to first floor level and brick above. The roof is hipped each end. Interior: the right end parlour was renovated in the late C19 and the detail exposed there dates from then. The centre room kitchen fireplace is exposed and is brick with one side supported on an oak post and it has a chamfered oak lintel. The chamfered axial beam could be original although it looks suspiciously like a replacement. The main stair is a late C17 early C18 dogleg with closed string, square newel posts with shaped finials and turned balusters. The first floor includes some original, that is to say late C17 - early C18, joinery detail. There is a corridor along the rear with a couple of fielded 2-panel doors hung on H-hinges and a couple of cupboards in the same style in the parlour chamber. The roof was not inspected although the bases of straight principals from probably late C17 - early C18 A-frame trusses show on the first floor. The New Inn was once known as Hodders House, a family name which appears in the parish registers only in the early C17. It is one of a group of attractive listed buildings which make up the hamlet of Farway.
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