Description

SD 53 NE WHITTINGHAM CUMERAGH LANE (off)

5/111 Bottoms Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse, probably C17 or earlier, altered. Cruck frame clad with thick
sandstone walls with quoins (watershot coursed front, slobbered random
rubble rear), slate-clad gambrel roof. Rectangular single-depth 2-bay
plan, 1½ storeys, with single-storey extension at right end. Two tie
plates under eaves at front and rear. Principal entrance now by board door
in extension at right hand end; another board door near left end; between
these, one square window in each bay (1st smaller), and some evidence of
earlier openings, including a vertical joint marked by jambstones towards
the right hand end; 2 windows in lower stage of roof, both flush with it
and vertical rectangular. Chimney at left gable and another near right
gable. Rear: upper half of wall slightly set back; small square window in
1st bay, larger ones in 2nd bay and in extension. Interior: altered,
but partition wall between bays incorporates full cruck truss (details
concealed); staircase in front inner corner of 1st bay.

Listing NGR: SD5872036637

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26458626

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)