Old Farmhouse Approximately 30 Metres South East Of Hill Farmhouse

SHELDON ST 10 NW

3/180 Old Farmhouse approximately 30 - metres south-east of Hill Farmhouse

II

Disused farmhouse. Early - mid C16 with major later C16 and C17 improvements, modernised in the late C19, disused in the C20 and parts have been adapted for agricultural use. Plastered local stone rubble; stone rubble stacks topped with C19 brick; corrugated iron roof, some old thatch beneath. Plan and development: Small 3-room-and through-passage plan house facing north-west and built down a gentle hillslope. Uphill at the left (north-west) end is an inner room parlour with a gable end stack. Next is the hall which has an axial stack backing onto the passage. The lower end has been much rebuilt in the C20; it is now a garage workshop and open-fronted. The house was built in the C16 as an open hall house maybe heated by an open hearth fire. The hall was floored over in the early - mid C17. 2 storeys. Exterior: The workshop section is open-fronted and much rebuilt, and secondary outshots hide the hall and inner room section. The passage front doorway is right of centre and contains a late C19-early C20 plank door. The passage rear doorway has an original oak doorframe missing one side of a shoulder-headed arch. This side has open window embrasures some containing the remains of C19 casement windows. Roof is gable-ended and steps down by the hall stack. Interior is dilapidated. The lower end has been much rebuilt in the C20. The rest shows mostly the result of a late C19 modernization. In the inner room the crossbeam is plastered over and the fireplace blocked by a C19 grate. However the hall has a large stone rubble fireplace with a chamfered oak lintel, and the crossbeam is chamfered with scroll stops. The roof is carried on side-pegged jointed cruck trusses from the passage to the inner room end. The limited access to the roofspace showed arguable evidence of smoke-blackening from an open hearth fireplace. Unmodernized but dilapidated farmhouse.

Listing NGR: ST1122007765