Addiscott

MORETONHAMPSTEAD SX 78 NE 2/70 Addiscott - - II

Farmhouse. C16 with C17 alterations. Completely modernised within last 2 years. Rendered granite rubble walls. Thatched roof, gable ended. Rendered, probably brick, gable end stacks; rendered stone axial stack with dripcourse. Originally 3-room-and-through-passage plan with hall, and possibly lower room, open to the roof timbers with central hearth; inner room always had a chamber above it. Floors inserted into hall and lower end in C17 and hall stack inserted backing onto passage. Rear wing at higher end consisting of outbuilding probably C18. Outshuts added at rear probably in C19. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front of C20 3-light casements with glazing bars. Wide doorway to passage at right of centre with C20 part glazed door behind C20 gabled porch with slate roof. Outshuts along rear wall of house. Interior much altered, few features remain. Hall fireplace now blocked but said to have massive cracked granite lintel. One original cross beam survives in the hall with fillet and ovolo moulding and bar and straight cut stop, cut off at rear and repaired at the front. 3 original roof trusses survive; 2 over the hall (one of which is at higher end) are smoke blackened, that at the higher end is closed truss to chamber over inner room with original plaster, smoke blackened on the hall side only. The original purlins and collars have gone but the smoke blackened ridge survives. Where the front wall has been built up the roof has been raised and new timbers put on top of the old ones. The feet of these trusses are not visible but that of the truss over the lower end of the passage is and it is a side pegged jointed cruck.

Listing NGR: SX7608086786