Little Cudworthy

DOLTON SS 51 SE 5/49 Little Cudworthy II House formerly farmhouse. Early C17 with C19 addition. Plastered cob walls. Gable-ended thatch roof. 2 rendered rubble stacks, one axial, one at left gable-end on projectng rendered rubble base. Plan: originally probably 3-room-and-through-passage plan but lower end to right seems to have been demolished or greatly reduced since the entrance is through a porch forming a baffle entry in front of the hall stack with the original passage at the right-hand end. The hall stack thus backs onto the passage and the inner room is heated by a gable-end stack, which may be a C18 insertion. C19 outshut at rear of hall and against left-hand end. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front of mid-late C20 . 2-light casements, one 3-light towards left-hand end on ground floor. Thatch roof porch towards right-hand end with C20 plank and glazed door. Large outshut against left- hand end and one against rear wall. Interior: hall has open fireplace with chamfered and straight-cut stopped wooden lintel. Roughly chamfered cross beams. Inner room has fireplace with plain wooden lintel and rough ceiling beams. Roof: consists of straight principal rafters with threaded purlins and collars halved one - the timbers are slightly darkened but it is unlikely to be smoke- blackening since the construction suggests a date no earlier than early C17.

Listing NGR: SS5714413821