Little Pentre-Coed And Adjoining Outbuilding

BRILLEY CP - SO 24 NE 5/11 Little Pentre-coed and adjoining outbuilding 22.12.75 GV II Farmhouse and adjoining outbuilding. C15 or earlier origins, altered C17 and mid-C19. Timber-framed and coursed rubble with brick replacement walling, stone-tiled roof laid in diminishing courses with brick ridge stack at north- east end. Former cruck hall house of probably four framed bays aligned north- east/south-west. Single storey and attic with dormers. Framing: no framing visible externally. South-west front elevation: windows are mainly C19 case- ments. There is a pair of 2-light windows, a square window and another 2-light window on the ground floor and a central gabled dormer with a 2-light window and a single-light window. Main entrance to right has a C19 ledged and battened door. Also C19 external brick chimney at junction of bays one and two. Lean- to outshut with catslide roof at rear. Interior: it was not possible to inspect the interior at time of survey (July 1986). However it is recorded to retain three cruck trusses. Outbuilding adjoins north-east end. Probably C17. Timber- framed on rubble base, weatherboarded with stone-tiled roof laid in diminishing courses. Three framed bays. Two levels. South-west elevation has two loft openings, three doors and a stable door with a transom light. Lean-to outshut with catslide roof at rear. Interior: wall-framing has one row of rectangular panels and a row of square panels from sill to wall-plate. Collar and tie-beam trusses with struts throughout apart from one intermediate tie-beam truss with raking struts; two tiers of trenched purlins. (RCHM, III, p 24, item 10; Alcock, N CBA Cruck Catalogue, 1981).

Listing NGR: SO2800049627