Description

CULLOMPTON
ST 00 NW
5/68 Little Rull
- II
5.4.66
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Detached house. Late C15 or early C16 with C17 alterations, renovated and partially
rebuilt in the 1970s. Cob, stone plinth, plastered under gabled-end thatched roof,
the attached barn (perhaps originally a shippon) at the lower end, now converted to
accommodation, under pantiled gabled end roof. A detailed survey and discussion of
this building by Peter Child and Michael Laithwaite has been printed; it was in ruins
when they recorded it but has since been restored. Formerly a 3-room, cross-passage
plan. 2 storeys.
Front: 3-window range; 2 C17 3-light casement windows survive at 1st floor with
latticed leading to outer lights, 8 leaded panes to central lights, with elaborate
catches. Otherwise C20 barred casement windows to this front and attached converted
barn. Chamfered arched door surround to cross passage. Large internal stack heats
inner room (to left) and emerges from front pitch of roof; axial stack backs onto
passage, both with brick shafts. Rear, all windows late C20.
Interior: of those features recorded by Child and Laithwaite the following are
visible. (1) the plan is still intact; (2) the partition at the lower end of the
passage has been dismantled, but the shouldered door surround had been removed to
give access through the former end wall into the kitchen (converted barn); (3)
shouldered door surround from passage into hall; (4) the hall is now once again open
to the roof, and the inner-room jettying is clearly apparent; (5) jointed crucks
marked 'B' and 'C' on printed elevation (p.308) are visible, although extensively
renewed; 'A' (the cruck retained from an earlier building) was not visible.
Reference: P.Child and M.Laithwaite, 'Little Rull : A Late Medieval Farmhouse near
Cullompton', Proc. Devon Archaeological Society, 33 (1975), 303-10.

Listing NGR: ST0193708575

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26461820

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  For the Record
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)