Cuckoo Farmhouse

MOLLAND SS 82 NW 15/47 Cuckoo Farmhouse II Farmhouse, latterly public house. Mid-to late C17, with minor late C19 alterations. Rendered over stone rubble and cob. Gable ended Welsh-slate roof. Axial and end stacks with short rendered shafts. Plan and development: 3-room baffle-entry plan, with axial stack between 2 right- hand rooms and integral end stack to left-hand room. C17 rectangular stair projection to rear right-hand stack. Probably C19 1-storey lean-to additions flanking stair projection at rear with that part to rear of left-hand end probably heightened in the C20. 2 storeys, with lean-to outshuts at rear of 1 and 2 storeys. Exterior: Asymmetrical 3-window front; late C19 2 and 3-light wooden casements. C19 boarded door with beaded frame, between first and second windows from left. Gabled stone porch with stone lintel and wooden side benches inside. Interior: Central ground-floor room with plain cross beam and half beams, and open stone fireplace with plain wooden lintel and bread oven with C19 cast-iron door. Evidence of former bench on left-hand wall and front wall. Probable stud wall between central and left-hand ground-floor room with 2-panelled door of c.1700 left- hand ground-floor room with rough cross beam, rebuilt fireplace with wooden lintel and segmental-arched recess to left, and window seat. Right-hand ground-floor room (kitchen) with blocked old fireplace. Old boarded door to left and right of entrance lobby, and old boarded doors to first-floor rooms. Late C17 roof with 7 principal- rafter trusses.

Listing NGR: SS8303925718