Penhay Farmhouse

POUGHILL SS 80 NW 6/202 - Penhay Farmhouse - II

Farmhouse. Probably C16 core, mid and late C17 improvements, C19 and C20 modernisations. Plastered cob on rubble footings; rubble stacks topped with C19 and C20 brick; slate roof (formerly thatch). Altered 3-room-and-through-passage plan house facing south with inner room at right (east) end. Projecting end stacks to service and inner rooms and projecting rear lateral stack to hall. 2 storeys. Irregular 5 window front comprising a variety of late C19 and C20 casements, some of latter iron-framed and all with glazing bars. C20 fixed pane window with leaded panes slightly left of centre blocks former front passage door. Present C20 door immediately to left to service room. Gable-ended roof. Interior shows mostly C19 and C20 plaster which probably hides earlier features. All fireplaces are blocked. Hall has early C17 ovolo-moulded and scroll-stopped crossbeam and inner room has mid-C17 chamfered and bar-scroll stopped axial beam. Cob crosswall at lower side of former passage and service room has 2 crossbeams, the ends of which are either unstopped or with runout or straight cut stops - late C17. Roof has been mostly replaced in late C19-early C20 but early C17 A-frame truss with pegged dovetail, lap-jointed collar between hall and inner room and a late C17 A-frame with plain pegged lap-jonted collar over service room. Sooted truss said to have been removed from hall.

Listing NGR: SS8404808417