Lower Living

SHOBROOKE WYKE SX 89 NE

5/100 Lower Living - - II

House, former farmhouse. Late C15 - early C16 with C16 and C17 improvements and C18 extensions; modernised 1976 - 84. Plastered cob on rubble footings with some brickwork; cob, dressed volcanic stone and brick stacks; pantile roof, hipped each end (formerly thatch). Originally a 3-room and through passage plan with service room to east (right of south-facing front). Both service and inner room rebuilt and extended in C18 and internal arrangement has been altered more than once. Long, low building now 2-storeys throughout. C16 stone lateral stack projecting to rear of hall and C18 cob and brick lateral stacks to outer rooms on front. 6- window front of C19 and C20 casements of various sizes and irregular disposition. Central 4-light window to hall with position of blocked passage door thought to be close by to right opposite obvious blocked door in unplastered rear wall. Present doors inserted in C18. 3 first floor dormers. Interior shows evidence of complex structural history. Hall with 2 bays of smoke-blackened roof on side-pegged, jointed cruck trusses. Massive C16 stone fireplace with oak lintel and wave- moulded surround to rear of hall. First floor low, oak, plank and muntin screen with plastered frame above is evidence of late C16 - early C17 flooring of hall. llead beam of putative lower passage screen has C16 stops. Lower end has C18 double fireplace, roof and beams and inner room apparently extended and rebuilt at about same time. House said to have housed 3 cottages and a forge in C19.

Listing NGR: SX8693799533