Haywood Farmhouse

CULLOMPTON ST 00 NE 6/60 - Haywood Farmhouse - II Farmhouse. Early C16 with later alterations and additions. Cob, stone plinth, plastered, under gabled-end and hipped slate roofs. Formerly a 3-room, through- passage house with a 2-bay barn added (or rebuilt) to the left-hand end in the C17, and a cross-wing added to the right-hand higher end in the mid C19. The lower end appears always to have been of 2-storeys; the parlour first floor was inserted well before that and the hall where the roof is heavily sooted. 2 axial stacks to the main range, one backing onto the passage and heating the hall, the other, now axial, but possibly once the lower end stack. End stack to cross wing. All with brick shafts. 2 storeys throughout, including barn. Front: 3 window range, 2 and 3 light casement windows to 1st floor (2 of them C19 with glazing bars), two 3-light C19 casement windows to ground floor; doorway (to former passage, the opposing door is now blocked) under slate-roofed porch with shaped brackets. Barn extension with entrance and hay loft access over. C19 cross- wing with 2-light casement windows to 1st floor and one of 3 lights to ground floor, is entered through doorway in lean-to at the end of the wing. 2- and 3-light C19 and C20 casement windows to rear of both wing and main range. Interior: hall with 3 cross beams, chamfered with diagonal stops, fireplace all chamfered; lower end room with one axial, chamfered, unstopped beam; the lower end passage screen has been removed, but the mortices are visible on the underside of the bressumer; the beam inserted above this bressumer suggests that the screen may have been of medieval date. Roof: 4 jointed crucks; lower end trusses are clean; lower-end trusses of hall closed and sooted to hall side only; hall of one bay with wind brace to each side; parlour lightly smoke-blackened; all crucks are morticed and side pegged at apex with diagonal ridge piece; cranked collars and trenched purlins.

Listing NGR: ST0534205257