Cornish Hall Farmhouse

TL 63 NE FINCHINGFIELD CORNISH HALL END (west side)

1/27 Cornish Hall Farmhouse 2.5.53 (Formerly listed as Cornish Hall)

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House. C16, altered in C18. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 4 bays facing S, mid-C16, with axial stack in second bay from right end. Extended to left by one short bay, c.1600. Wing extending forwards by 2 bays from left end, c.1600, with internal stack at the junction and shorter extension to rear, forming an irregular T-plan. Single-storey lean-to extension to rear of main range. 2 storeys. 3-window range of C20 casements. C20 door in gabled porch. The main stack has 2 chamfered recessed panels and 4 octagonal shafts with moulded bases. Roof of left wing hipped at front, with plaster coving below eaves, C18. At left end of main range, ovolo-moulded bargeboards, c.1600. In right gable, C18 3-light window with casement replaced. The interior of the main range has chamfered axial and transverse beams, chamfered joists of horizontal section, and one transverse beam to left of the stack with lamb's-tongue-and-bar stops; some original floorboards, jowled posts, close studding, clasped purlin roof with arched wind-bracing, including some re-used medieval rafters; and a moulded oak door. The left wing has in the right wall some exposed close studding and an original window with 4 ovolo mullions. Joists of horizontal section, some original oak panelling and C18 pine panelling, and a clasped purlin roof. Moated site. RCHM 4.

Listing NGR: TL6841635709