Abbot's Moor Farmhouse

SJ 32 NE 8/67

WEST FELTON CP HAUGHTON Abbot's Moor Farmhouse

II Farmhouse. C15, remodelled mid C18 and C19 with later additions and alterations, principally of late C20. Painted brick and rubblestone encasing timber-framed building of cruck construction; slate roof.

Original plan an open-hall house of at least two framed bays with first floor inserted and eaves raised mid C18; two storey gabled range added to west in late C18 or C19, forming present T-plan. Right end of main range formerly agricultural. Two storeys with floor band to rear (road side) and former roof pitch visible to left gable end. C19 casements directly below eaves to left and right of centre with two casements below to left flanking doorway (left segmental-headed). Wide C20 casement to right of roughly central late C20 lean-to brick porch with half-glazed door to either side and two C20 casements to front. Part of roof slope of porch cut out for left first floor window. Segmental-headed boarded door to former agricultural end. Rebuilt red brick ridge stack to centre and subsidiary stack in front part of roof slope to far left. Two storey gabled addition to rear has C20 casement on each floor and rubblestone and brick external end stack.

INTERIOR: massive central stack. Room to right has inserted ceiling with chamfered spine beam and heavy joists. Timber-framed square-panelled wall to right on rubblestone plinth is apparently original right gable end. Three true cruck trusses, exposed to both ground and first floors, with arch-braced collars.

Listing NGR: SJ3738326948