Falkedon Farmhouse (South) (Known As Canns Falkedon)

Falkedon Farmhouse (south), also known as Canns Falkedon, is a 16th and 17th century farmhouse that was originally a single dwelling, later subdivided into three cottages and now functions as a two-story building. The construction utilizes plastered cob on stone rubble footings, with stone rubble and cob stacks topped with 19th-century brick, and a thatched roof. The original plan consisted of a 4-room-and-through-passage layout, built down a slight slope, with two inner rooms situated on higher ground at the southern end; one room appears to be a later addition to a stair turret. The original inner room has an axial stack backing onto that extension, while the hall has a similar stack positioned behind the passage. The service end room showcases a projecting cob stack with a winder stair rising alongside to the rear. Evidence suggests that in the 19th century the main rooms were divided into separate cottages, obscuring some of the earlier development. The original house was likely an open hall house, and the service end room was completely rebuilt in the mid-17th century as a kitchen. The exterior presents an irregular five-window front featuring 19th and 20th century casement windows; the oldest window, above the passage doorway, retains rectangular leaded panes, while the majority have glazing bars, with later replacements lacking them. Three doorways reflect the cottage subdivision; the left one is a later insertion, the central one (with a side light) is the original passage front doorway, and the right one is set into the service end room and features a 19th-century plank door within a solid frame. The roof is hipped to the left and gable-ended to the right. The interior demonstrates largely superficial 19th-century modernization, with blocked fireplaces and boxed-in ceiling beams. The walls are plastered, and the joinery is of 19th-century style. A lower section of a 16th-century hall roof truss, a side-pegged jointed cruck, remains exposed. The kitchen in the service end room retains mid-17th century features, including a soffit-chamfered crossbeam with scroll stops and an oak lintel above the rubble fireplace; the fireplace also contains a 19th-century cloam oven. An inscribed date of 1809 on the lintel likely corresponds to the time of the farmhouse’s subdivision into cottages. This room’s roof is supported by an A-frame truss with pegged lap-jointed collar and dovetail halvings.