Cokesputt Farmhouse

Farmhouse. It likely dates to the 16th or 17th century, but was significantly refurbished and partially rebuilt in the mid-19th century. The walls are constructed of plastered brick on a cob and stone rubble foundation; the stacks are of stone rubble topped with 19th-century brick; and the roof is tiled with scallop-shaped red tiles, originally thatched. The house originally followed a three-room-and-through-passage plan, facing south. The western end is a large parlour, known as the ballroom, with a gable-end stack. The passage was widened to accommodate the main staircase. The dining room occupies the position of the original hall, with a rear lateral stack, and the kitchen is at the east end, featuring a projecting gable-end stack. A dairy block projects at right angles to the rear of the dining room, partially overlapping the kitchen. Despite the layout suggesting a hall house origin, little evidence supports this.

The 19th-century refurbishment was extensive. The house is two storeys high and presents with a symmetrical five-window front, featuring original mid-19th century casement windows with glazing bars, including a few careful 20th-century replacements. The ground-floor windows are larger with larger panes of glass. A central doorway, with a 19th-century part-glazed six-panel door, accesses the passage. A verandah is likely original. The roof is gable-ended. A date plaque is affixed to the kitchen chimneyshaft, but the inscription is illegible. The rear stair window contains 19th-century patterned coloured glass.

The interior joinery and detailing are predominantly from the mid-19th century, featuring an open-string staircase with stick balusters and 19th-century fireplaces. The kitchen contains a roughly-chamfered crossbeam of uncertain date. However, the dining room retains a late 16th to early 17th century four-panel ceiling of intersecting, deeply chamfered beams with projecting bead mouldings. No trusses are visible at first floor level, and the roof structure is considered to be of 19th-century origin. Cokesputt Farmhouse is a well-preserved Victorian farmhouse with minimal 20th-century modernisation. While earlier fabric may be concealed behind 19th-century plaster, the house is primarily a 19th-century structure.