Gulliford Farmhouse, Including Front Garden Area Wall

MAMHEAD SX 97 NW

8/305 Gulliford Farmhouse, including front garden area wall

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Former farmhouse and garden wall to the garden immediately in front. Late medieval origins, probably remodelled in the mid C17, substantial reconstruction after a fire in 1985. Rendered cob and stone rubble ; thatched roof, hipped at ends ; unrendered stone rubble front lateral stack with set-offs and a bread oven, left end stack, rear right lateral stack. Plan: Overall L plan : a 3 room and and cross passage main range, lower end to the left, the inner room extended into a former agricultural building, rear right wing at right angles to the main range. The origins of the house are a late medieval open hall house, one medieval smoke-blackened truss surviving at the left end. Evidence found during renovation work suggested that the lower end room was originally shorter than at present : it may have functioned as the C17 kitchen before being extended, the present stack is probably late C18 or early C19. The mid C17 remodelling is high quality with good carpentry detail to the hall and a C17 lintel to the inner room parlour. The date of the rear wing is uncertain, it may be a converted farmbuilding. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 5 window front with a higher roofline to the left, the eaves thatch eyebrowed over the 3 right hand windows. C20 timber front door to former cross passage to left of centre ; 1- and 2-light C20 timber casement windows with glazing bars. The rear. elevation retains a C17 2-light mullioned window with chamfered mullions to a projection off the hall. A flint garden wall in front of the house with grey limestone coping is ramped at the left end. Interior: The C17 hall has a chamfered stopped crossbeam with exposed scratch-moulded joists, an open fireplace with a chamfered lintel with elongated stops and a C17 doorframe with stops to the former cross passage, A C20 stair has been introduced at the rear of the passage. The lower end room has a probably late C18 or C19 brick fireplace designed to take a chimney-piece. The inner room fireplace has an ovolo- moulded lintel and probably rebuilt brick jambs. Most of the crossbeams in this room are replacements, but one, chamfered with step stops, is probably original with a set of original exposed joists and a second crossbeam is also c17 but probably resited. Roof: One late medieval smoke-blackened side-pegged jointed cruck truss survives, originally with diagonally-set ridge, the collar mortised into the principal rafters. The truss has been boarded-in above the collar.

Listing NGR: SX9475579697