Cook'S Farmhouse

SY 08 NW WOODBURY WOODBURY SALTERTON (west side)

2/143 Cook's Farmhouse 11.11.52 - II

Farmhouse. Possibly C17, entirely remodelled and possibly rebuilt, in C19. Plastered cob on stone footings, with brick patching; gabled-end asbestos pantiled roof. Originally a 3-room through-passage plan house, with a rear wing to the inner room. Rear lateral external stack to hall, all brick and looks entirely rebuilt in C19; end stack, external, cob, to rear wing, no longer visible externally; lateral external stack to rear wing, presumably to replace end stack. Stair turret in angle formed by main range and rear wing. C19 brick leanto to rear. 2 storeys. Front: 5 window range, 2- and 3-light casement windows throughout, mostly C19; brick, pantiled porch to passage entrance. Rear: C19 3-light casement windows and another of 2-lights to turret. Interior not inspected; house unoccupied at time of resurvey visit (July 1985). With the exception of the roof which was thatched in 1952, the house is as it appeared when first listed.

Listing NGR: SY0127988713