Hullock'S Pool Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Dating to the mid-16th century (with a 1513 date on a bressumer, which may not be original), it was enlarged in the late 17th or early 18th century and re-cased in the 19th century. It is timber framed with plastered brick infill and has a tiled roof. Originally a 3-room, cross-passage plan aligned north-south, a parlour wing over a cellar was added to form an overall L-shaped plan. The exterior has original framing members concealed behind affixed planking. It has one and a half storeys. The garden front features three 20th-century shallow bay windows and three 3-light dormers. There are 19th-century or later lean-to extensions to the right. The roadside elevations have 20th-century casements, with the principal range bowed and having dormers. The roof has two ridge stacks, and a third stack to the lower slope of the wing. Internally, despite the later planking obscuring much of the timber framing, a complete 16th and 17th-century house survives. The main range's service room (north side) has a chamfered bressumer to an end inglenook (partly blocked), chamfered and moulded cross ceiling beams, and exposed framing to an internal partition resting on a massive sill beam. The hall has a framed ceiling of 9 panels, deeply chamfered ceiling beams, and stopped joists. The fireplace bressumer has two tiers of flat coiled moulding and the date RB 1513. The hall and parlour are divided by a framed partition and back-to-back fireplace, which may have a shared timber-framed internal stack. The parlour (south side) has two chamfered axial ceiling beams. A winder stair is located to the west of the fireplace. The framing utilizes uprights and straight diagonal struts, with wattle and daub infill to the internal walls. A queen-post roof with trenched side purlins is visible on the upper floor. There is no direct access between the room over the parlour and those over the hall and services. The wing has a brick-lined basement; the ground-floor room has chamfered and stopped beams and joists. The steep stairs, serving the upper room of the wing only, appear to be from around 1720, and have turned balusters on square-section bases. Despite its exterior appearance, this is a well-preserved and interesting farmhouse of the 16th and 17th centuries.