Starveall

CODFORD SALISBURY ROAD ST 93 NE (off north side) 7/71 Starveall II Farm cottage with attached shelter shed, barn and cowshed, now partly converted to accommodation. 1860s. Cottage is cob with hipped tiled roof, axial brick stack; barn is weatherboarded timber-frame on English garden wall bond brick plinth, Welsh slate roof, former cowshed is cob and rubble stone with tiled roof. Farm group on three sides of south-facing yard. Two-storey, 4-window east front of cottage; planked door to left and 2-light casement to left and three to right, one in blocked doorway, four 2-light first floor casements. Brick lean-to extension to right return, rear C20 addition in similar style. Six-bay open-fronted cart shed or shelter shed attached to rear with slate roof on wooden posts. Five-bay barn parallel to house has double planked central doors facing yard and steel doors to rear. Former cowshed now annexe to house, on same axis and attached to south end of barn, has planked door, 2-light casements and inserted 16-pane sash to gable end, gabled dormers and casements to rear. Interior of house retains original joinery including doors, tongue and groove dado, stairs against former rear wall, open fireplace on north side of stack. Barn has queen strut trusses on jowled main posts, beam on south side of centre bay inscribed J. FORD 1865. A little altered example of a mid C19 downland farmstead group, carefully restored.

Listing NGR: ST9944239332