Details
CULLOMPTON POUND SQUARE
ST 00 NW
5/132 No, 15, including detached
- building 5 metres to rear
- II
Offices and workshops, formerly cottages and originally a single dwelling. C17 with
later alterations and additions. Mainly cob, on stone plinth, plastered, under
gabled-end slate roof. 3-room, through-passage plan (higher end to the left of
passage) with lower-end rear wing, extended in C19 to enlarge cottage accommodation.
Right-hand partly external end stack and axial stack to main range; one axial
(originally end) stack to rear wing. All stacks with brick shafts, 2 of them
plastered. 2 storeys throughout.
Front: 4-window range, with a left-hand extension set at an angle with one 3-light,
unbarred casement window to 1st floor. Main elevation with a one 3-, one 4-, and two
5-light windows, all under hood moulds, sills supported by shaped brackets, the
window to the left, and the 3-light window above the porch without glazing bars, the
others with a single transom only. All C19.
Ground floor: porch (right of centre) with moulded cornice, and 2 Tuscan columns, and
2 pilasters; panelled door (with rectangular fan light) and reveals. One 4-light
window to left-hand side. Unbarred, but otherwise as above, one canted bay to either
side of porch, 1:4:1 to the left, 1:3:1 to the right.
Rear Wing: (roadside elevation) 2 semi-circular headed 12-pane sash windows to
stairwells (1st floor); 3 doors give access to former cottages. Inner elevation of
wing with three 3-light casement windows to lst floor, and one door and 5-light
window to ground floor; all C19.
Interior: right-hand (lower end) room with blocked end fireplace, and one chamfered,
step-stopped axial beam; axial beam to passage and another to Hall with double cyma-
recta moulding. Roof ceiled. Wing with 2 chamfered cross beams, and 2 trusses,
possibly upper crucks (roof space inaccessible). Including a detached building to
the rear of No.15, stone below, cob above, with gabled-end slate roof, retaining 2
chamfered cross beams and 2 trusses exposed, morticed and side-pegged.
Listing NGR: ST0206106986
