Cogmans Farm House

TQ 34SW BURSTOW C.P. COGMANS LANE

8/90 Cogmans Farm House 11/6/58 II*

Hall House. C15 altered in C16 and extended in C20. Timber frame on stone and render plinth with rendered infill. Horsham slab roofs taller to left with rear ridge stack to left and front ridge stack to right. 2 storeys to left and right end, 1 storey and attic to centre under 1 leaded lucarne window. 3 original framed bays and 2 C20 to right with curved bracing. Four C20 leaded casements across ground floor. Planked door to right end in entrance bay set bay under tiled roof with gabled porch hood on wooden supports. Left hand return front: former upper end of hall house, jettied on first floor with tile hung gable; braced posts to ground floor and curved braces above. 3 leaded casements to first floor, 2 below. Planked door to right.

Interior: Base cruck roof forming quasi-aisle. Framing exposed with moulded dais beam, large tie beam and rebated crown post to 1st floor room on left.

This house is the only known example of a base cruck in Surrey.

NUTFIELD AND BURSTOW: A History of Landscape and Buildings. P. Gray 1980 (Tandridge District Council)

Listing NGR: TQ3248044571