Description

SS64SE EAST DOWN

3/2

Northcote Farmhouse and Northcote Farm Cottage

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3/2 Northcote Farmhouse and Northcote Farm Cottage

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3/2 Northcote Farmhouse - and Northcote Farm Cottage

- II

Farmhouse, formerly manor house, now house and cottage and attached barn. C16 or earlier house, with C15/C16 fabric, perhaps a solar, in 2 storey building at right angles right-hand rear. Single depth plan. 2 storeys, 3-cell, the roof of the main house raised with asbestos tiles to rear, slates to front. Rubble stone with gable ends and stone stacks. Plaque: RR 1737 on left-hand cemented stack referring to the date of alterations. Tall rubble stone stack rising off rear wall with inward sloping cap above weathering, with latter outshuts across the rear of varying heights, one formerly a dairy. 4 timber sashes with glazing bars, 18 panes per sash, one with horns, above 2 inserted French windows, C20 porch added and sash window with glazing bars at upper end to front. Rear outshut with irregularly spaced 4 pane timber windows on ground and first floor to left of door. A 4-bay rubble stone built barn C19 with slate roof at right rear. Cart entrance with timber lintel and pair of timber doors. Loft door to right. The 2 storey building between house and barn contains an open raised cruck couple with moulded cavetto and cyma blades reducing to square sections above a shouldered joint with high cambered and moulded collar, perhaps with remaining strut, the whole forming a 4-centred arch. Diagonally set threaded ridge and 3 tiers of unmoulded purlins. Tudor arched moulded timber first floor fireplace beam backing onto rear of house with door to left of fireplace. The cruck may be reset.

Listing NGR: SS6048842839

External Links

• Wikidata Q26400959

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