Tuckett'S Farmhouse

HACCOMBE-WITH-COMBE LOWER NETHERTON SX 89 71

15/121 Tuckett's Farmhouse -

GV II*

Farmhouse and adjoining house (single build). 1904 (datestone) by William Curtis Green for P.D. Tuckett. Rendered with a red tiled roof, gabled at ends, with sprocketted eaves ; rendered stacks, some timber frame and weatherboard detailed. Vernacular Revival style, sited above an exceptional group of traditional thatched farmbuildings and a thatched farm cottage. Plan: Irregular overall L plan : the main block facing south-east a family house for the owner, with a tenanted farmhouse in a crosswing at the right end with a single- storey rear dairy wing to the farmhouse. Front door to family house on front elevation, front door to farmhouse on right return (north-east elevation). Exterior: The main block is single-storey and attic at the left with a 2-storey stair projection to the right. 2-storey crosswing with a single storey rear wing on the same axis. Asymmetrical 2:1 window front (one window to the crosswing). The main block is buttressed at the left with a timber front door flanked by shallow buttress features, a 4-light timber casement to the left of the door and a gabled attic dormer. The 2-storey projection to the right has an asymmetrical gable to the front, the upper storey carried on shallow decorative corbels with a datestone PDT AD 1904 : 1 ground floor and 1 first floor 2-light timber casement. The crosswing, at the right end, has a timber framed gable with deep verges carried on angled timber brackets and a 4-light first floor oriel. The right return (the crosswing) has a shallow gable of asymmetrical profile, the front verge swept down almost to ground level. Plank front door and 2 4-light casements within the gable, one 3-light casement to the left. The single-storey dairy wing has a lean-to and lateral stack. The left return of the main block has a ground floor bay window with a lean-to roof. Interior: The left end of the house is perfectly intact : stone floor, inglenook fireplace with a punch-dressed grey limestone chimneypiece, contemporary joinery and carpentry designed by Curtis Green, contemporary kitchen fittings. The farmhouse also retains a Curtis Green stone chimneypiece. An early example of Curtis Green's work ; he set up in practice in 1898, some of his houses and cottages were illustrated in The Builder (Gray). An outstandingly intact Vernacular Revival house, starred as part of a remarkable group of Vernacular Revival and traditional C17 and C18 thatched buildings at Tuckett's Farm. Gray, A. Stuart, Edwardian Architecture: A Biographical Dictionary (1985).

Listing NGR: SX8903471830