Hannaford Farmhouse

Former farmhouse with late medieval origins, substantially remodelled in the mid 17th century and significantly altered in the late 20th century. The house is constructed of whitewashed rendered cob and stone rubble, with a thatched roof, hipped at the ends. There is an axial stack with a brick shaft, and a right-end stack with a truncated shaft. Originally, the building comprised a three-room layout with a through passage, the hall stack backing onto the passage and the lower end to the right. A partition between the hall and inner room has since been removed. A rear left wing, possibly a 17th-century kitchen, is also present. The house’s origins lie in a late medieval open hall, of which one smoke-blackened truss survives. Ground-floor carpentry suggests the building was floored and stacks inserted in the 17th century. Significant late 20th-century alterations include additions to the rear right. The two-storey, asymmetrical front has five windows. A thatched porch on posts shelters the front door, which leads to the passage located to the right of centre. There are 20th-century small-pane timber casements, and a 20th-century thatched bow window with small-pane timber casements to the left of the front door. Internally, a plank and muntin screen remains at the lower side of the passage. The muntins are chamfered and scroll-stopped on both sides, suggesting the lower end room was originally a parlour. The hall fireplace has a chamfered lintel with pyramid stops, and the hall retains one chamfered step-stopped crossbeam. In the roof, a single sooted truss survives, featuring side-pegged jointed crucks, formerly with a threaded ridge, the cranked collar mortised into the principals.