Luckworthy Farmhouse and Adjoining Outbuilding to South and Barn to West

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MOLLAND STONEMOOR LANE SS 82 NW 15/96 Luckworthy Farmhouse and adjoining - outbuilding to south and barn to west II Farmhouse and adjoining barn and outbuildings. Circa 1500 altered in the early to mid - C17, barn probably added in the C18. House refenestrated and right-hand end probably partly rebuilt in the late C19. Outbuildings probably added at the same time. Roof altered in the mid-to late C20. Cob on coursed stone rubble plinth, with right-hand gable end rendered to front. Gable-ended corrugated-asbestos roof (higher to left), formerly thatched. Barn roof hipped to left. Stone rubble outbuildings with some brick dressings and gable-ended scantle-slate roof. Rendered stacks. Plan and development: 3-room and through-or-cross-passage plan facing south-east; falling to right. Late-Medieval open hall house consisting of hall with unheated inner room to left and cross passage and service room (now kitchen) to right; formerly open to the roof from end to end, probably with low dividing partitions. C17 remodelling included insertion of the first floor and rebuilding of the dividing walls in stone, insertion of a stack in the hall backing onto the cross passage, and insertion of an end stack in the service end. Staircase inserted in rear of hall and in the front left-hand corner of the kitchen. It is possible that initially only the service end and inner room end were floored and the stack inserted in the hall which was left open to the roof (see very high lintel to hall fireplace), and only floored later in the C17. It is possible that a separate first-floor ceiling was constructed over the inner room end at the same time (see rough-hewn post in dividing wall- visible in bedroom). Eaves raised over hall and inner-rom end, probably when hall was floored. At same time possibly in the C17 or later, the kitchen has been divided to create a dairy at the rear, and a small room was made at the rear of the cross passage, probably at the same time. The inner room has also been divided, probably in the C18. 3-bay barn added to the left-hand end of the house, probably in the C18, and low outbuildings added at right angles to the front of the kitchen and right-hand end in the late C19. 2-storey house. Exterior: Asymmetrical 4-window front; mainly late C19 small-paned 2- and 3-light (hall window) wooden casements. C20 half-glazed cross-passage door off-centre to right. C20 half-glazed kitchen door to left of kitchen window. Probably C19 raking buttresses flanking hall window. Right-hand gable end with projecting semi-circular bread oven and lean-to addition with segmental-headed boarded stable-type door. Barn has pair of large boarded doors (right-hand one 2 leaf) to front with wooden lintel and opposed boarded door to rear with wooden lintel. Right-hand side of outbuilding in front of kitchen has slatted boarded window and front has boarded door with segmental brick-arched head. Interior: Hall has C17 deep-chamfered spine beam with scroll stops and rendered front half beam C17 fireplace backing onto passage with high chamfered wooden lintel, left- hand end supported on rounded wooden corbel with chamfered edges. Fireplace with probably C19 surround and blocked in C20. Cupboard in left-hand wall of hall and window seat to front window. Kitchen has large blocked fireplace with late C19 surround. Old boarded doors throughout. Nail-studded door at rear of passage, door to stairs at rear of hall with H-L hinges, and 2 boarded doors to inner room (latterly divided), the right hand one nail studded with old strap hinges. Old oak floorboards to first-floor rooms. Doorway between central and left-hand bedrooms with remains of C17 ovolo-moulded frame. Dairy window with bars and internal shutters. Remains of late-Medieval smoke-blackened from consisting of 2 side-pegged jointed cruck trusses, one to lower side of passage and one over the hall. Each truss with cambered collar, mortice and tenoned apex, V-shaped notch for former diagonally-set ridge-piece and trenches for two sets of former purlins. Truss at lower end has had collar removed. Section of Medieval roof over hall retains lower purlins and lower parts of rafters all smoke-blackened. Elbow hip cruck at upper (left-hand) end with V-shaped notch to take former ridge-piece. Truncated remains of lightly smoke-blackened rough-hewn post projecting from wall dividing hall and inner- room section of house, possibly inserted as part of former separate ceiling over bedroom above inner room, before the hall was floored. Late C20 roof structure above old roof. Three-bay barn roof has C20 trusses with principal rafters and collars.

Listing NGR: SS8123129186

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