Description

HARTLAND SS 22 NE

2/139 Long Furlong Farmhouse

2.6.77

- II

House formerly farmhouse. Late C15 with alterations in the first half of the C17 when it was possibly extended, modernised and altered in later C20. Walls of very small slate stone rubble whitewashed at the front. Gable-ended natural slate roof. 2 axial stacks which are of stone rubble and circular in design - the left-hand one is a crude C20 replica of the other which has a dripcourse and chamfered corners and is probably Medieval. 2 small brick stack to rear wing. Plan: original plan not entirely clear, basically either 2 or 3 room-and-through- passage with probably integral garderobe and dairy wing at front of lower end to right. Built as an open hall house with central hearth, the lower end appears always to have been floored with a heated solar on the first floor. At the front of the lower end is a short very narrow 2 storey wing which contains the remains of a garderobe in the end wall reached through a closet on the first floor and with a service room below. Beyond the hall, and with a full-height solid wall dividing them, is a further room which is likely to be a C17 addition but exhibits no early features although it did formerly have some early C17 plasterwork on the first floor. It is likely to have been added during the first half of the C17 when the hall was floored and a stack inserted on the rear wall of the lower room. The hall at present has a stack at its higher end which bears no evidence of an early fireplace so it is uncertain how it was heated in the C17. The room beyond it formerly had a stack in its end wall but this has been rebuilt in the 2nd half of the C20. This occured at a time when the house was undergoing extensive renovation which invovled the removal or destruction of a number of early features such as roof trusses, windows and plasterwork and with then evidence of the early development and form of the house. The plan on the ground floor was also altered, the through- passage removed and a larger entrance hall created, presumably taking space out of the former hall, with a C20 staircase and a small room beside it. Outbuilding wing behind right end converted to further accommodation. Exterior: 2 storeys. Traditional asymmetrical 4-window front with narrow wing projecting from the right angle, probably C17 gable to left of centre which has a straight joint to its left. Early C19 12-pane sashes to right on the 1st floor and at the centre on ground floor with a 20-pane sash to its left. Paired early C19 9- pane sashes to the right on the ground floor. C19 2-light small-paned casement on lst floor of large gable to left and small single C19 light to its right. To the right of that is a late C19 6-pane sash. To left on the ground floor is a 2-light C20 small-paned casement. C20 plank door to right of centre under slate hood. Very narrow wing projecting from right end has two C20 small-paned 2-light casements on the 1st floor and a 4-light C20 casement below. Rear elevation has late C20 PVC windows without glazing bars and an inserted late C20 glazed door to right of centre. Long former outbuilding wing projects from left end and this overlaps a blocked medieval stone doorway on the rear wall of the house which is chamfered with Tudor arched head. Interior: former hall has ovolo-moulded cross-beam with ogee moulded joists and a chamfered half-beam at the left end which appears to have had the chimney stack inserted in front of it. The right-hand room has chamfered and hollow step-stopped cross beams with similarly decorated joists. C17 open fireplace on rear wall has chamfered dressed stone jambs and a chamfered and ogee-stopped wooden lintel. In the small front wing the shaft to the garderobe can be seen in the end wall on the ground floor. The ceiling retains its original wide flat joists. The chamber over the lower end, formerly the solar has a small medieval fireplace which has a rough stone lintel supported on paired curved stone corbels to either side, at the rear of the fireplace are slates set in herringbone pattern and the hearth is of slates set on edge with a chamfered stone plinth in front. To either side of the fireplace is a small projecting stone probably for holding candles. Roof: the medieval roof survives only over the hall and consists of 2 cruck type trusses with no joints visible on the principals, arch-braced collars, threaded purlins and one tier of chamfered and curved windbraces. At the apex is a yoke which apparently took a square set ridge although that has now gone. The timbers are smoke-blackened as is the wall at the lower end of the hall. Early trusses also existed over the solar and garderobe wing of less elaborate construction but these were removed in the C20 restoration. Despite the considerable C20 alterations this house remains a very interesting building with unusual features such as the garderobe and medieval fireplace and it obviously remained a building of considerable status well into the C17. It retains an attractive facade and occupies a prominent roadside position. Source: Dr N Alcock - Unpublished report; album of photographs taken during C20 restoration, in the possession of the owners.

Listing NGR: SS2562726305

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