Cutton Farmhouse

SX 99 NE POLTIMORE

5/150 Cutton Farmhouse - - II

Farmhouse. Late C16, with C19 remodelling. Cob, stone plinth, plastered, under gabled-end slate roof. Originally a 3-room, cross-passage plan, the lower end to the left of the now-blocked passage (ie. front taken to be that facing farm buildings), with parlour wing to rear. External rear lateral stack with brick shaft heats lower end; axial stack backs on to former passage; end stacks to both right-hand end and parlour wing, the latter external and stone with weatherings for thatch. There is no evidence of smoke-blackening; 2 storeys. Front: 4-window range, the upper windows of 2 lights, C19; 2 and 3-light windows to ground floor; 2 entrances, that to the right with fielded panelled door. Neither opposes the rear entrance to former passage, set immediately to the left of the rear external stack. Rear elevation: four 2-light C19/20 timber casements above; one 2, and one 3-light casements, all with glazing bars. Pentice roof slated, supported by timber uprights, extends between stack and parlour wing. 2- light windows to this wing, but none to end wall. Roof: 4 bays above higher end, principals, morticed and side-pegged at apex and to collars, purlins (now gone) formerly trenched. A C19 roof extends over the C16 roof; and also along the entire lower-end and the adjacent barn. 2 principals (as above) to parlour wing. All old timbers clean of smoke-blackening.

Listing NGR: SX9708798690