Gaulet Farmhouse

Gaulet Farmhouse

House, late 16th or early 17th century, with alterations and additions; possibly of earlier, probably late medieval origins. The building is rendered with a triple-roll tile roof, the rear elevation being of roughly squared rubble stone. The centre chimney is brick, while that to the rear of the cross wing is ashlar.

The plan is of lobby-entry type with two rooms, one storey with attics, a two-storey parlour cross wing to the left, and a one-room extension in line to the right. The front door is boarded, with a trellis porch having an elliptical lead-covered roof. To the right is a 4-light mullion and transom window with heavy timbers and wide chamfer. A similar window appears to the left of the front door but with narrow chamfer. The gabled cross wing is flush to the front and projects at the rear. The ground floor window is off-centre to the left, with a heavy frame containing two later iron casements. Above this is a late 19th-century sash window, also offset, with a small window to the right at intermediate level. A gable is set a little up the roof slope above the front door and left window, containing a 2-light 19th-century casement window. A similar window appears in a dormer to the right. Both gables and the dormer have scalloped bargeboards. A bay extension to the right has a door in its front wall and a first-floor door in the end gable, formerly approached by steps, with a 2-light window.

The rear elevation features a similar 4-light transomed window and a 2-light wood-mullioned window at the right end, with a large roughcast dormer over the hall. The left return wall has a 17th-century chamfered architrave to a 19th-century casement window with glazing bars, and a chamfered wood-mullioned 4-light window.

The interior has stop-chamfered beams to the hall and parlour wing on the ground floor, the parlour wing having a timber-framed cross wall. Arched doorheads occur at this partition and from parlour to hall. The first floor has stop-chamfered beams, ceiled over to the rear room of the parlour wing. A lateral timber-framed partition divides the narrow front room from the rear room above the hall, with an arched doorhead. The roof is a collar-truss type with trenched purlins. The service end to the right, remodelled in the late 18th century, has a straight-flight service stair and plain beams.