Crooks Dairy Farmhouse

COMBE RALEIGH SY 10 SE

6/111 - Crooks Dairy Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse, disused at time of survey. Early C17 or earlier. Whitewashed and rendered, probably cob and stone rubble right gable end wall rebuilt in brick. Slate roof, gabled at ends; axial stack and left end stack. Plan: 3 room and through passage plan, heated lower end to the right, hall stack backing on to passage. Later outshut at right end. Details of plan unclear as interior not inspected. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4 window front with a C19 or C20 plank front door to the passage to left of centre. 4 ground floor and 2 first floor windows, all C20 casements or fixed windows. Interior: No access at time of survey (1988) but exposed carpentry survives at both ends of the house and the inner room may be jettied into the hall. Other features of interest, including an early roof structure, may survive. Group value with 2 ranges of shippons at the rear (q.v.).

Listing NGR: ST1683601992