Codda Farmhouse And Attached Shippon, Wall And Pigsty

Codda Farmhouse and Attached Shippon, Wall, and Pigsty

This is a farmhouse with attached shippon and outbuildings, probably dating from the 17th century or earlier, with the farmhouse partly rebuilt in the 19th century. The buildings are constructed of stone rubble, the farmhouse featuring large granite quoins and the shippon built of large blocks of moorland granite and granite rubble. The roofs are covered with rag slate and have gable ends. Stone rubble end stacks are present on the left side and an axial stack backs onto the shippon.

The exact original plan arrangement is uncertain. The house and shippon are built down a slope, with the house positioned on the higher left-hand side. The house has an overall L-shaped plan and has been remodelled on the exterior and raised in the 19th century. Externally, it appears to have a simple front range of two-room and cross-passage plan with a one-room wing to the rear left, all heated by end stacks. However, internally, the entrance opens directly into the larger right-hand room, while the left-hand room (a dairy) is considerably smaller.

The plan indicates considerable similarities to that of a traditional long house with a three-room and through-passage arrangement. The original entrance, now divided from the main house on the higher left-hand side of the shippon, led into a through-passage with no partition between the passage and shippon on the lower right-hand side, and a thick cross-wall on the higher left-hand side containing the hall flue. A blocked circa arch in this cross-wall, dressed on the lower face, would have been the entrance to the passage into the hall. The larger right-hand room of the existing house was therefore originally the hall, and the smaller left-hand room the inner room. The central entrance to the house is probably a later insertion, possibly of the 19th century. The roof structure in the shippon has been replaced in the 18th and 19th centuries, and it is therefore uncertain whether this long house has medieval origins.

The building is two storeys. The house presents an almost symmetrical front elevation on the left, with the lower shippon attached on the right. The house has an entrance slightly right of centre with a 19th-century stone rubble porch and small outshut attached to the left-hand side of the porch. A 20th-century two-light casement is positioned to the right, and a small one-light window ventilates the dairy to the left. Three 20th-century two-light casements are on the first floor. On the lower right-hand side of the house, the shippon has a later circa 18th- or 19th-century entrance porch and outshut built across the front. The entrance is on the left through an open-fronted porch with a plank inner door. The granite lintel and jambs to the entrance appear roughly chamfered. To the left of the entrance is a small window which would have provided light for the passage. Attached to the front right of the shippon is a small single-storey rendered outbuilding projecting the front right, and there is a lean-to outshut across the rear. In the lower right-hand gable end is a chamfered four-centred granite arch with pyramid stops and a loft door above with roughly cut granite jambs, lintel and sill. The yard to the front of the shippon and on the lower right is constructed of huge granite setts with drainage channels corresponding with drain holes through the walls of the shippon.

Internally, the house was probably partly remodelled in the 19th century with 19th-century floor joists. The hall fireplace has a probably chamfered granite surround with a 19th-century mantleshelf. The dairy in the left-hand room is complete. The through-passage in the shippon has a solid cross-wall on the higher side which is blackened, possibly as a result of a leaky hall flue, and there is a cloam oven projection. The blocked entrance between the passage and hall has a probable hollow-chamfered granite four-centred arch which is dressed on the lower face. The shippon is open to the roof above the passage and left-hand side and is floored on the right-hand side. A flight of internal stone rubble and granite steps leads from near the passage to the loft. The floor joists are constructed of roughly cut tree trunks and the roof structure was replaced in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Subsidiary features include a short section of wall attached to a mid-19th-century pigsty of similar materials with a gabled roof, positioned to the front of the house. To the front of the shippon is an attached mid-19th-century single-storey outbuilding with a roof hipped to the front.