Rendle'S Down Farmhouse And Attached Outbuilding

MONKLEIGH SS42SE 7/152 Rendle's Down Farmhouse and attached outbuilding GV. II Farmhouse. C15 hall house, of which the hall and lower end survive; remodelled, and parlour end built c. 1590. Colourwashed roughcast over coursed slatestone rubble and cob; gabled artificial slate roof; stone left end stack; stone lateral stack to centre of front wall. C15 house had open hall to left of through-passage and a lower room to right; the lower end was probably floored originally, and the hall was floored over and given its lateral stack c. 1590; parlour end, to left, which has the most cob, was built or rebuilt c. 1590. The building is sited on a slope with the parlour at the traditional higher end. 2 storeys; 4-window range. C20 door to left; late C19 plank door to right. Flat rendered arches over late C19 two-light casements, one-light casement and horizontal sliding sash on ground floor. First floor has C20 three-light casements to right; first floor of parlour end to left has two late C16 two and 3-light ovolo-moulded wood-mullioned windows with leaded-lights. Rear elevation has C19 plank door and horizontal sliding sash and, to left, a small late C16 two-light chamfered wood-mullioned stair-light which has some original glass set in octagonal-shaped leaded lights. Interior: through passage is flanked by plastered partitions set beneath beams; beam on left is chamfered, and projects as slight internal jetty into hall on left. Hall has blocked fireplace to front, and late C16 ovolo-moulded beams. Two C15 raised crucks visible at first-floor level; cruck to left.is chamfered; could not be inspected above ceiling height. Late C16 parlour end to left: staircase and adjoining partition is late C19; first-floor room has very fine plasterwork of c. 1590: overmantel with vine trails etc above fireplace; moulded cornices, and frieze beneath with rosettes and reversed scroll decoration; the ceiling has scrolled and oak-leaf decoration, set amongst ribbed strapwork and culminating in central pendant. Subsidiary features: late C16 two-storey outbuildingto right, of similar materials, has plank door of same date set in ovolo-moulded wood architrave with jewel and ogee stops.

Listing NGR: SS4640521702