Description

CULLOMPTON PONSFORD
ST 00 NW
5/131
- Helmore
- II
Detached house, formerly a farmhouse. Late C16 or early C17. Random rubble
sandstone and volcanic trap to rear (facing roadside), cob, stone footing, plastered,
to front, under half-hipped and gabled-end roof. Formerly a 3-room, through-passage
plan, the higher end to the left of the passage, the rear passage doorway blocked,
with a lower end cross wing, probably added int eh C19. The lower end must also have
been rebuilt (or indeed added anew) for there is a marked vertical masonry joint
immediately to the right of the blocked passage door, with evidence of quoining.
Another front wing has been added forward of the hall. Former end stack, now axial,
heats lower end; an axial stack backing on to hall heated hall but is no longer
visible externally. 2 storeys throughout.
Front (ie facing garden): C20 casement windows throughout, of 2- or 3-lights, 3 to
main range 1st floor, 2 to ground floor, one to each floor of wings, with a 4-light
window to the inner face of lower end wing. Door to small lean-to between wings,
another to extreme left-hand side.
Rear (to roadside): C19 casement windows, 1st floor with 2 of 4-lights, one of 3-,
ground floor with one of 3-lights, 2 of 4-, and one of 5-, 3 panes per light.
Interior: parlour, now divided by C20 axial wall, but with intersecting beams,
forming a grid of 4 squares, still visible, with a composite moulding comprising 2
cyma recta and one cavetto. Hall with 3 axial beams, chamfered; fireplace lintel
chamfered with hollow step stops. Passage screen to hall side survives, plank and
muntin, chamfered, carpenter's mitre, step stops; one chamfered doorway arch. Lower
end with one deeply chamfered cross beam, fireplace with replaced lintel. Lower end
cross wing with blocked fireplace; 2 rooms, that to the rear formerly a dairy.
Roof: much altered, one truss crossed and morticed at apex, pegged; the rest look
later; cross wing with C19 A-frame roof.

Listing NGR: ST0015807387

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26462064

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