Pullabrook Farmhouse, Including The Garden Gate And Gateposts

Pullabrook Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating back to the 16th or 17th century, with additions from the 19th century. It is constructed of solid rendered walls, likely of stone or cob, with slated roofs featuring clay ridge tiles; the rear wing has handmade ridge tiles with low crests. The main range has three ashlar granite chimneystacks with tapered tops, one in each gable and one on the ridge, positioned off-centre to the left, originally heating the main hall. The hall stack has a larger cap and appears older, with both it and the left-hand stack having added brick shafts. The farmhouse follows a three-room and cross-passage plan, with the stack backing onto the passage and a storeyed entrance porch to the front. There are two rear ranges, likely later additions, at right angles to the hall and lower end; one behind the hall probably dates from the late 16th or 17th century, while the other (containing the kitchen) is from the late 19th century. The gable stack in the right-hand wing has a substantial projection, and a further projection on the rear side possibly intended for a staircase. The front of the farmhouse has two storeys and four windows. The windows are 19th-century wooden casements with old glass, mostly of three lights with three panes per light, although the two right-hand ground-floor windows are of two lights with four panes per light. A 19th-century six-panelled door, with the two lowest panels flush, is at the front, alongside a two-pane fanlight. There is a gabled, solid-walled porch with stone seats on either side, featuring heavy wood tops and plank backs. A glazed door is located between the two right-hand ground-floor windows, composed of two flush panels and four glazed panes, with a two-pane fanlight. The walled garden to the right of the porch has two pairs of 19th-century granite gateposts with ogee caps; the gateposts nearest the porch have a contemporary round-arched gate of strip iron with intersecting tracery in the head. The interior largely retains a good quality mid-19th century character, although a fireplace in the lower room has a chamfered wood lintel concealed by a 19th-century surround. A gable fireplace in the second-story right-hand room has a wooden chimneypiece dating to circa 1700, with a bolection-moulded architrave, pulvinated frieze, and cornice, fitted with a good mid-19th century decorated cast-iron grate. The roof of the main range was rebuilt in the late 19th century. The roof of the rear wing behind the hall is likely from the late 16th or 17th century, featuring plain principal rafters, notched at the apex, with disused mortices for collars and threaded purlins. Early beams, fireplaces, and a screen likely remain concealed beneath the plaster. The farmyard, largely rebuilt in the late 19th century by H T Eve, includes a barn with a cob gable wall containing two slit windows with thick rectangular wooden frames.