Hawkdown Farmhouse

DOWLAND SS 51 SE 5/98 Hawkdown Farmhouse II Farmhouse. C17 possibly with earlier origins, modernised in early C20. Plastered cob walls. Thatch roof hipped to left, gabled to right end. 2 brick stacks - one axial towards left-hand end and one at right gable end. Plan: 3-room-and-through-passage plan with lower end to the right heated by gable- end fireplace. Axial stack at higher end of hall also serves inner room. Late C19 or C20 outshut added behind higher end. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 5-window front of 4 C19 3-light casements on 1st floor with C20 3-light casement to their left and also on the ground floor. Early C20 gabled wooden lattic porch to right of centre with C20 plank door behind, 1st floor windows have eyebrows in the thatch above. Interior: fireplace in left-hand room has cambered narrow chamfered wooden lintel. No other original features visible on ground and the 1st floor was inaccessible at the time of survey. Early roof timbers may survive and other features are probably concealed.

Listing NGR: SS5801110423