Fulwood Farmhouse,Railings And Gate Fronting Road

Fulwood Farmhouse is a late medieval farmhouse that was ceiled in the 17th century and later enlarged with a cross wing. It underwent refenestration in the late 19th to early 20th century. The building is roughcast over rubble, with a brick front on the north side and an east gable end, topped with a clay tiled roof. There are large external roughcast stacks at the northwest gable end and another roughly in the center of the main block.

The farmhouse has an open hall house plan that runs north-south, possibly with an open loft at the northern end. It has been ceiled to form two cells and a cross passage, with a northern cross wing addition and a southwestern gabled wing added later. The structure is one and a half storeys tall with irregular fenestration. There are windows flanking the stack in the gable end, one window on the left of the ground floor by an outshut, a center gabled dormer rising in the roof space, and one window set below the eaves on the right. The ground floor entrance is on the left, with two windows to the right, and the right gable end features one window opening.

Although the interior was not seen, it is reported to contain two arch-braced jointed cruck trusses visible in the medieval range, a six-panel compartment ceiling in the hall with moulded beams, and a similar four-panel ceiling in the west end room of the cross wing. The eastern room of the wing was originally a kitchen with an oven and furnace.

The early 19th century railings are made of cast iron and link the gable ends of the farmhouse, enclosing the forecourt. These railings feature spearhead uprights with urn standards and sweep up to a single gate of similar design. Fulwood Farmhouse is considered an early example of brick construction in the Taunton area and a significant representation of the developments that medieval farmhouses underwent in the 17th century.