Woolfin Farmhouse

DOWN ST MARY SS 70 SE 3/154 Woolfin Farmhouse - GV II

Farmhouse. Early C16 core with later C16 and C17 improvements. Plastered cob on rubble footings; stone rubble or cob stacks with plastered rubble chimney shafts; corrugated asbestos roof (formerly thatch). Originally a 3-room-and-through-passage plan house facing south-east with inner room at left (south-west) end. Service end has been demolished and replaced by a dairy outshot. Hall has axial stack backing onto passage and inner room has projecting end stack. 2 storeys. Regular but assymmetrical 3-window front of late C19 and C20 casements, most with glazing bars. C19 plank door to passage right of main front. Gable-ended roof. Outshot with front doorway and monopitch roof. Interior: little modernised. Passage-hall doorframe probably C17, oak with chamfered surround. Hall has late C16-early C17 crossbeam, soffit-chamfered with late step stops. The fireplace has been reduced in size and therefore original form is hidden. Alongside to left is an ogee-moulded beam, possibly the bressumer carrying the internal jetty of the passage chamber. Upper end of hall is a full height oak-framed crosswall of probably mid C16 date. Ground floor comprises an oak plank-and-muntin screen (now plastered over) with large framing above. Inner room has a probably late C16-early C17 axial beam with rough soffit-chamfer and is supported against the hall screen by a plain post. The underside includes a series of mortices for a large-framed axial partition with a doorway towards the hall end. Fireplace here is blocked. Late Cl6-early C17 roof. Lower part of hall truss is plastered over but its shape suggests that it is a jointed cruck. Roof is not smoke-blackened but the ridge over the passage is; suggestive that hall and inner room roof is secondary. The full height cob partition on lower side of passage is now end wall and includes a blocked ground floor doorway.

Listing NGR: SS7547404288