Kennydown Farmhouse

WEMBWORTHY KENNYDOWN LANE SS 61 SE 1/74 Kennydown Farmhouse II Farmhouse. C17 with possibly earlier core. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble or cob stacks topped with C20 brick; thatch roof and corrugated asbestos roof to outshots. Originally a 3-room-and-through-passage plan house facing south with inner room at left (west) end. Rear of passage now blocked by stairs rising first as a straight flight then turning in both directions along rear wall. Once projecting rear lateral stack to hall and slightly projecting end stack to inner room. Probably secondary outshots to rear of hall and inner room. 2 storeys. Irregular 4-window front of.mostly C20 casements without glazing bars but also includes 2 first floor late C19 casements with glazing bars. C20 front door to right of centre with C20 monopitch and corrugated plastic roofed hood. Roof is hipped to right and gable-ended to left. Interior features are mostly hidden by C19 and C20 plaster but original layout survives. The crosswalls either end of the hall are cob. The fireplaces are blocked by C20 grates. The service end crossbeam is plastered over. Axial hall beam has rough soffit chamfer; it is probably late C17-early C18. C17 crossbeams in inner room have broad soffit chamfers with large scroll stops. Roof of late C17 - early C18 A-frame trusses with pegged lap-jointed collars and X-apexes.

Listing NGR: SS6595212588