Sheldon Farmhouse

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DODDISCOMBSLEIGH SX 88 NW 2/118 Sheldon Farmhouse 26.3.75 II Former farmhouse in use as house and office. C16 or earlier origins, the lower end replaced by a late C19 block. Whitewashed rendered cob and stone ; thatched roof to main block, gabled at left end, half-hipped at right end ; left end stack and axial stack with brick shafts. The late C19 block has a slate roof, gabled at ends and end stacks. Plan: Complex evolution. The present arrangement is a west-facing 3 room and cross passage plan, hall stack backing onto passage, the lower end to the right rebuilt in the late C19 as a south-facing crosswing. The origins of the house may be an open hall with an early outshut, remodelled in the late C16/early C17 with an early C17 2- storey porch added. The original lower end is said to have been destroyed by fire. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2+1 window front (1 window to the porch) with the end wall of the C19 block at the right end ; large gabled 2-storey porch on timber posts with cobbled floor and ovolo-moulded lintel to inner doorway. C20 timber casements with glazing bars except ground floor left which is metal-framed and a 2- light C16 or C17 chamfered mullioned stair window to the left of the porch. 3-bay symmetrical south elevation to C19 block with big timber sashes and a central doorway: single storey rear lean-tos to main block with corrugated iron roofs. Interior: The dressed granite back of the haIl stack shows in the passage which has been subdivided at the rear. The hall has a good granite fireplace with chamfered jambs and lintel with a winder stair of timber baulks adjacent to the stack ; plank and muntin screen between hall and inner room with a shouldered doorframe (blocked) ; C16 doorframe to rear outshut; plastered over crossbeam. The inner room has a smaller granite fireplace. On the first floor the timber-framed room over the porch has the remains of a decorated plaster frieze of the circa early C17 and some plaster heads on the west wall. Roof: 2 separate roof constructions : a lower roof structure to the lower end of the stack, not convincingly smoke-stained and a probably late C17 higher roof with halved pegged collars over the hall and inner room. Group value with the farmbuildings and chapel.

Listing NGR: SX8394887024

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