Paynes Farm Cottage

The following building shall be added to the list:-

ST 13 SW LYDEARD ST LAWRENCE

2/192 Paynes Farm Cottages Nos 1, 2 and 3

GV II

Farmhouse, now 3 dwellings. C16 with later alterations including late C19 raising of eaves. Rendered cob and limestone rubble; gabled Welsh slate roof; brick end and axial stacks. 3-unit plan with through passage, extended to front left in early C19 and to right in C17. 2 storeys; 5-window range. C20 half-glazed doors and C20 casements, except three C19 casements with glazing bars to first floor. Late C19 four-panelled (2 glazed) door to lean-to on left. Interior: long lower room to left of through passage has a deep fireplace with oven, kiln, curing chamber and herringbone brick fireback; fire bressummer has housing for C16 joists (floor raised C18); plain C18 joists and beam and reset plank door; remains of inserted fireplace to right divide lower room into two parts. Through-passage with flanking chamfered beams. C17 plank door to hall, which has chamfered 2-light wood-mullioned window to rear with C16 quartered chamfered beams and open fireplace with half-pyramid stops to stone jambs and brattishing to moulded overmantle beam; curing chamber to rear of hall stack, a rare example, has an arched and rebated wooden doorframe at first floor level. Stud partition to inner room has inserted chamfered and arched doorframe to stairs with plank partition surmounted by reset early C17 screen with turned balusters and carved lozenge panels. Jointed cruck trusses with lap-jointed collars and trenched through purlins. Cottage to right not inspected but noted as having, reset C16 beam and other'features. Roof space could not be fully inspected.

Listing NGR: ST1283332241