Lugg'S

Lugg's is a detached house, originally a farmhouse, dating to the late 15th or early 16th century. It is constructed of roughcast rubble with cob, and has a thatched gable-end roof. The building is a three-room through-passage house with jointed cruck construction, with the service end located to the right of the passage. Originally, the hall and service ends were open to the roof, as evidenced by heavy smoke-blackening throughout the timbers. The inner room appears to have always been two storeys high or unheated, or potentially both. A first floor and stacks were likely added in the late 16th or early 17th century. The hall is heated by an axial stone stack backing onto the passage, and the service end by an internal end stack. A later stack is located at the inner room end. Both end stacks have brick shafts. An original ladder likely served as the staircase, which was later supplemented by a stair turret added to the front corner of the service end; the internal stairs have since been removed. The exterior features an irregular three-window front. The first floor has late 19th-century casement windows under eyebrow eaves. The ground floor has a three-light casement window to the inner room and hall, and a single four-light casement window to the service end. An open timber porch is present. A pronounced circular stair turret is located at the extreme right-hand end, with a late 19th or early 20th-century window set low, and a small two-light timber window with triangular-headed lights set high, which may be of early origin. A bake oven bulge is visible on the end stack. The rear includes an outshut under a catslide roof, and a two-storey wing dated 1924. Internally, a plank and muntin screen divides the passage and service end; the muntins are chamfered and pegged but not mitred. A chamfered and unstopped ceiling cross-beam is also visible. The service end fireplace has chamfered jambs and a lintel with run-out stops. The hall has one and two half cross ceiling beams, chamfered with pyramid stops, with some cut away. The fireplace lintel and jambs are of a single timber, all chamfered, and were renewed at the foot. A rough stud and infill partition sits between the hall and the inner room, with remnants of a doorway arch. The hall and service end roofs are heavily sooted, including rafters and battening on the rear slope. A closed truss extends to the higher end, sooted only on the hall side, displaying Alcock type F2 apex carpentry.