Gillhouse Farmhouse Including Cob Walls and Outbuildings Adjoining to North West

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ZEAL MONACHORUM SS 70 SW 4/63 Gillhouse Farmhouse including cob walls and 26.8.65 outbuilding adjoining to north- west - II

Farmhouse. Late C16 - early C17, possibly earlier core; rebuild and enlarged in late C17. Plastered cob on rubble footings; stone rubble stacks topped with C20 brick; thatch roof. House plan is derived from a 3-room-and-through-passage plan house facing south-east with the former inner room at the right (north-eastern) end. In the late C17 the house was remodelled in 1 or 2 stages. A fourth room was added onto the former servaice (south-western) end. The former inner room was probably extended and both hall and inner room were brought forward an extra bay. At the same time a 2-storey porch was put on the front and built large enough to incorporate a stair (now dismantled). The corridor along the back of the hall is also probably contemporary. The present stairs are C19 and in that corridor. The former inner room (now a kitchen) has an end stack; the hall has an axial stack backing onto the passage; the former service room is unheated; and the service end extension room has a projecting end stack. 2 storeys throughout. Balanced nearly-symmetrical 2:1:2 window front of late C19 - early C20 3-light casements with glazing bars. The large gabled porch contains a plain nearly round- headed outer arch and the front door behind is late C19; panelled and part-glazed. The main roof is gable-ended. The projecting left end stack of neatly-squared stone blocks with ashlar weathered offsets. The rear wall includes a number of late C17 oak window frames, all with flat-faced mullions and relatively broad internal ogee mouldings. There are two 3-light windows to the former service room and extension (the latter is blocked), 2 more to the chambers above (one contains rectangular panes of leaded glass) and another 2-light window to left of these. Interior: the internal crosswalls are of cob. The former inner room (now the kitchen) has late C17 features; the crossbeam is soffit-chamfered with runout stops and the large fireplace is blocked. The core of the hall is late C16 - early C17. The fireplace is built of stone rubble with soffit-chamfered and pyramid-stopped oak lintel. The rear of the 2 axial beams is contemporary and similarly finished against the chimney breast. At the other end another section of oak has been scarfed on and a massive iron bolt sticks up in the first floor corridor above. The beam towards the front has a plain soffit chamfer, dating from the late C17 widening of the hall. The passage and 2 lower rooms have no exposed carpentry. The roof is wholly C17 although some earlier smoke-blackened timbers are reused. The earliest truss over the lower side of the passage is an A-frame with a pegged dovetail lap-jointed collar; it is late C16 - early C17. All the other trusses are late C17 A-frames with simple pegged lap-jointed collars. The trusses over the hall have unusual collars which on the rear side are shaped to follow the principal down nearly 0.5m and are fixed by a series of pegs. At the rear a high cob wall on rubble footings and with thatch coping encloses a courtyard. On each side later stones have been built with lean-to roofs.

Listing NGR: SS7132703638

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