Hunt Street Farmhouse

TR 04 NE CRUNDALE HUNT STREET (west side)

6/28 Hunt Street Farmhouse 13.10.52 GV 11*

Hall house. C15 and C17. Timber framed and exposed with plaster infill and painted brick infill to ground floor. Plain tile roof. Two storeys and attic on rubble plinth. First floor end-jettied to left, and jettied to the front to right. Hipped roof with gablets and projecting end stack to left, and large stack to right. Central 2 storey gable, added c. 1595 with decorative framing and pargetted plaster panels on first floor and oversailing gable with carved bargeboards. Irregular fenestra- tion of 4 windows, wood casement, with 2-storey bay window in central gable, and square bay window to right. Linen-fold panelled door in moulded surround to screens passage left, in gabled porch. Interior: although now under 1 roof north-south, the right end bay has an inner roof running west-east. Stack and first floor inserted in hall c. 1595 with 2-storey gable (porch originally initialled to Chapman family and dated 1595). In 1971 a shoe of c. 1605 and ] bushel weight found in niche in chimney - reference to local building superstitions. Formerly known as Cake's Yoke, since named after Hunte family, tenants in C15. See Igglesden XXXII, and Wye Local History Magazine Autumn 1980.

Listing NGR: TR0906848592