Falkedon Farmhouse (North) Including Garden Walls Adjoining To The South-East

SX 79 NW 2/257

SPREYTON Falkedon Farmhouse (north) including garden walls adjoining to the south-east

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Farmhouse. Mid C17 (probably earlier core), refurbished in the C18, modernised in the early C19. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble stacks, one still with its original granite ashlar chimneyshaft; asbestos slate roof, formerly thatch. Plan and development: 3-room-and-through-passage plan house facing south-east. At the left end is the inner room. It has a gable-end stack but this might be a C19 insertion. The room was probably a dairy formerly. The hall has an axial stack backing onto the passage. The service end room is a parlour with a projecting gable- end stack. A kitchen block projects at right angles to rear of the inner room and has a large gable-end stack, and a granary block projects at right angles to rear of the service end parlour. Although only C17 and C18 features can be seen the plan of the house suggests C16 origins as an open hall house. It is now 2 storeys throughout. Exterior: irregular 3-window front of mostly C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars although there are, at the right end, C19 16-pane sashes; one to the parlour and another to the chamber above, the lower one is taller. The passage front doorway contains a C19 6-panel door (another similar to rear), the doorcase has panelled pilasters and the flat hood rests on shaped brackets. The roof is gable-ended. At the back of the granary there is an external flight of stone steps up to the first floor doorway. Interior: no carpentry is exposed in the service end parlour. The earliest feature here is a C18 crockery cupboard with shaped-shelves. The fireplace here is blocked by a C20 grate. The hall has a large granite fireplace with a soffit-chamfered and straight cut-stopped oak lintel. The crossbeam is soffit-chamfered with step stops (and including one pyramid stop). The inner room fireplace has a C20 grate and no carpentry is exposed. The kitchen has suffered a fire which burnt out the fireplace lintel and charred the crossbeam. There is a good deal of C18 joinery detail throughout the house including 2-panel doors hung on H-hinges and cupboards with panelled doors. Roof is inaccessible but the bases of straight principals show suggesting A-frame trusses, probably C17 or C18. The front garden is enclosed by a tall wall. Most of it is cob on stone rubble footings with tile coping but the south-west side (alongside the lane) was rebuilt in the C19 in local stone rubble.

Listing NGR: SX7062095374