Cobhall Farmhouse

ALLENSMORE CP - SO 43 NE 3/6 15/7 Cobhall Farmhouse 26.1.67 GV II Farmhouse. Probably C15 or C16 with C17 and C18 extensions and later alterations. Timber-frame with brick infill partly rendered. Welsh slate and tiled roof. Large central brick stack. Irregular plan comprising north/south main range with cross-wing to south and another wing extending eastwards at north end. Cellar and two storeys. South elevation is rendered with three windows, 3-light late C20 glazing bar casements. Ground floor has two more such windows, one to left and one to right hand side. Entry with ledged door in right gable. West elevation has C17 timber porch with low 2-centred outer arched lintel supporting splat balusters. Three more splat balusters to each return. Doorway within porch has jambs with deep mouldings running out into tassel motifs at their bases. To the right, set in irregular timber- framing is a 4-light mullioned and transomed ovolo moulded oriel with a wrought- iron casement, the whole glazed with quarries. North wing has more regular exposed framing three panels high from cill to wall-plate. Attached to east end of north wing is an C18 or early C19 brick extension. Interior noted as having panelled ceilings in ground floor room of south cross-wing. RCHM noted inter alia elaborate Jacobean carvings on a fireplace overmantel, carved frieze with dolphins and doorways with 4-centred heads. (RCHM, Vol I, p 16 - 17).

Listing NGR: SO4518835938