Sellake Farmhouse

HALBERTON ST 01 SW 2/174 - Sellake Farmhouse 5.4.66 - II*

Farmhouse. Circa 1600. Cob, stone plinth, plastered under gabled-end thatched roof. 3-room, through-passage plan with rear outshut under slated catslide roof. Higher end to left of passage; external left-hand end stack heats inner room; rear (formerly external) lateral stack heats hall; internal right-hand end stack with bake-oven bulge heats service end; all stacks with brick shafts, the lateral stack substantially of stone. 2-storeys. Front: 5-window range; all casement windows; first floor windows (except that to lower end) barred, C19, and under very shallow eyebrow eaves; 8-panes per light; inner room chamber of 5-lights, the others of 3. Ground floor with three 4-light barred casement windows; French windows to inner room; C19 panelled door to passage; another door to lower end (kitchen). Two 2-light windows to right hand end elevation, one C20 metal framed window to left; 2 and 5-light window to rear. Interior: deeply chamfered cross beam to lower end room; the fireplace lintel recently (February 1985) removed in part as a result of fire damage, is quite exceptionally large. Stud and panel screen (chamfered and with carpenter's mitres) to lower end of passage; hall with composite double ovolo and double cavetto intersecting beams forming a grid of 4 ceiling squares; inner room with intersecting beams that carry an unusual moulding of 2 rolls flanking a run of raised saltires or dogtooth ornaments; and forming a grid of 4 ceiling squares. Roof: 4 jointed crucks, apex morticed and pegged, diagonal ridge-piece; straight collars pegged and morticed; 2 pairs of trenched purlins. All are clean, although the left hand end truss has been charred by fire.

Listing NGR: ST0023914099