Road Down Farmhouse

COLEBROOKE SX 79 NW 4/82 Road Down Farmhouse - - II

Farmhouse, formerly 2 cottages. Late C17. Plastered cob on rubble footings; stone rubble or cob stack topped with C20 brick; interlocking red tile roof (formerly thatch). Originally a pair of contemporary 1-room plan cottages facing south and separated by axial stack serving back-to-back fireplaces. Small C19 store on right (east) end. 2 storeys. Originally symmetrical 2-window front with doorways each end. Now C19 plank door behind C20 monopitch and corrugated asbestos roofed porch at left end but right end door now blocked by C20 casement with glazing bars. The other windows are oak-framed casements with glazing bars and may be original. The ground floor windows have internal iron glazing hars of circular section. Gable- ended roof with deep eaves on a series of timber brackets. Rear wall is blind. On right end is a small agricultural store with cob rear wall, framed front and leanto roof. Interior: both rooms have original crossbeams, soffit-chamfered with straight cut stops. Original fireplaces are blocked. Roof not inspected but its low pitch suggests that original replaced in C19.

Listing NGR: SX7462496919