Cuddenhay Farmhouse

EAST WORLINGTON CUDDENHAY LANE SS 71 NE 4/14 Cuddenhay Farmhouse

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Farmhouse. Mid or late C17. Rubble and cob, rough-plastered and colourwashed, gabled corrugated iron sheeting roof, gable end stacks with tall rubble shafts. Plan: symmetrical front, 2-room plan with wide passage to centre with staircase at the back; kitchen running the full depth of the house to the right; shallower parlour to left with dairy at rear, dairy reached from kitchen by a short passage, behind the central staircase, part of dairy projects in a shallow wing at rear; both kitchen and parlour heated by gable stacks. Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical, 3 windows, 2-light mid C19 casements with close- set glazing bars. Central door opening into the entrance passage, plank door, C19 porch. Dairy wing with a 4-light C17 wooden mullioned window on first floor. Interior with kitchen with chamfered cross ceiling beam full depth of house with ogee-stops; similar half-beam to gable wall; large fireplace with wooden bressumer and mantleshelf, opening blocked; passage with a repositioned late C19 staircase at back, C18 2-panelled doors. Parlour with a double ovolo-moulded ceiling beam, ogee- stops; similar half-beam to the gable wall, fireplace with dressed stone jambs and a single ovolo-moulded wooden bressumer. Dairy with axial chamfered ceiling beam with stops. Roof: not inspected. This is a most interesting and unusual C17 transitional plan.

Listing NGR: SS7610215474