Dent House And Cob Wall To South

SX88NE 3/126

DODDISCOMBSLEIGH DODDISCOMBSLEIGH Dent House and cob wall to south

GV II

Former farmhouse. Circa early C16 origins, C17 remodelling, C18 alterations, substantial 1970s renovations and extension. Colourwashed rendered cob and and stone ; slate roof with deep eaves hipped at ends ; axial stack and right end stack with brick shafts to main block, similar stack to end of rear wing, C20 front lateral stack to addition. Plan: The main block is a 3 room and through passage plan, lower end to the right, narrow unheated inner room, hall stack backing on to passage. A rear left wing, at right angles to the inner room and hall, forms an overall L plan. The house originated as a late medieval open hall, remodelled and floored in the circa early C17, the rear kitchen wing possibly added later in the C17. The medieval roof survives over the lower end only, over most of the hall and the wing the roof timbers are C18, below a later roof. Substantial alterations of the 1970s include an extension adjoining the lower end room to rear service rooms behind the hall and lower end. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3:1:2 window front with one window to the 1970s 2 storey porch. 2- and 3-light 1970s timber casements with square leaded panes. Interior: The hall is the most complete room, with a large open fireplace with a timber lintel that extends over the doorway from the passage. Chamfered crossbeam with chamfered joists with runout stops ; plank and muntin higher end screen with diagonal stops and evidence of some alteration. The hall has a winder stair in the front right corner. C18 china cupboard on rear wall of hall. The inner room has a chamfered mullioned rear window (possibly resited) with diagonal stops. Lower end and passage carpentry in C20, early C19 marble chimneypiece possibly concealing earlier features. Good set of C18 2-panel doors, some with HL hinges, to both ground and first floors. The rear wing has a rough crossbeam and rebuilt open fireplace with a chamfered timber lintel with step stops. Roof: 2 side-pegged jointed cruck trusses, one over the hall, the other over the lower end. The apex of the lower end truss only is visible, lightly sooted with sooted rafters below a later roof. Diagonally-set threaded ridge, threaded purlins and collars all missing. The C18 roof is of pegged collar rafter design with x apexes to the trusses. Group value with cider house and threshing barn.

Listing NGR: SX8555686462