Shutelake Farmhouse

CULLOMPTON SS 90 NE 4/78 Shutelake Farmhouse - - II Former farmhouse. Possibly C16. Stone with some cob, plastered, under gabled-end slate and pantiled roofs. Formerly a 3-room, through-passage plan with wings to rear of parlour and lower-end, and a barn extension forward of lower end. End stack to parlour, rear external lateral stack to hall, end stack to parlour wing; all with brick shafts. 2 storeys throughout. Front: 4-window range, 3 of 3-lights, and 1 small single light window to left-hand side with large exposed lintel; large 3-light casement window to both hall and parlour; glazed C20 door to passage; front barn projects with roof ridge at a much lower level than main range, 2 doors and hay loft access, the front end partly weatherboarded. The left-hand elevation above steeply falling ground is much buttressed, and with three 3-light windows to each floor. Right-hand elevation, two 2-light casement windows possibly retaining C17 or C18 frames. Rear: no windows to end faces of wings (although stone flat-roofed extension to parlour wing has C20 fenestration); two 3-light windows (1 occupying rear entrance to passage) to right of external stack with big slated set-off; lower end wing (inner face= with two 3-light windows to 1st floor, and also to ground-floor, 1 of which has chamfered jambs and mullions. Interior: several unchamfered ceiling beams, also a chamfered bressumer morticed to receive higher end screen to passage. The hall is deeply chamfered with hollow step stops. Roof: rear blades of 2 jointed crucks survive, smoke-blackened; the roof has otherwise been renewed on several occasions.

Listing NGR: SS9781707501