Cuddenhay Farmhouse

Cuddenhay Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the mid or late 17th century. It is constructed of rubble and cob, with rough plaster and a colourwashed finish, topped by a gabled roof made of corrugated iron sheeting. The building features gable end stacks with tall rubble shafts.

The layout is symmetrical with a two-room plan, including a wide central passage that leads to a staircase at the back. To the right is a kitchen that runs the full depth of the house, while to the left is a shallower parlour with a dairy at the rear. The dairy is accessible from the kitchen via a short passage behind the central staircase, and it projects slightly in a shallow wing at the back. Both the kitchen and parlour are heated by gable stacks.

The exterior is two storeys high and symmetrical, with three windows featuring mid-19th century two-light casements that have close-set glazing bars. The central entrance door opens into the passage and is a plank door with a 19th-century porch. The dairy wing includes a four-light wooden mullioned window on the first floor that dates back to the 17th century.

Inside, the kitchen has a chamfered cross ceiling beam that spans the full depth of the house and features ogee stops. There is a similar half-beam on the gable wall, along with a large fireplace that has a wooden bressumer and mantleshelf, though the opening is blocked. The passage contains a repositioned late 19th-century staircase at the back and 18th-century two-panelled doors. The parlour features a double ovolo-moulded ceiling beam with ogee stops and a similar half-beam on the gable wall, as well as a fireplace with dressed stone jambs and a single ovolo-moulded wooden bressumer. The dairy has an axial chamfered ceiling beam with stops.

The roof has not been inspected. This farmhouse represents a particularly interesting and unusual example of a 17th-century transitional plan.