Description

ST OO NE KENTISBEARE
8/83 Maddock's Farmhouse
II
Detached house, formerly a farmhouse. Early C16, with later alterations and
additions. Roughcast cob on stone plinth; asphalted slate roof, hipped to right
hand end, gable end to left.
Plan: originally a 3-room, through-passage plan house, the higher end to the right
of the passage, with a wing to the rear of the service end. The hall and service
end were originally open to the roof, for here the timbers of the roof, which is of
jointed cruck construction, are smoke-blackened. The inner room was unheated and
may always have been of 2 storeys. The service end wing was probably added when the
hall received its first floor in the C17 (both have ceiling beams with scroll
stops); the service end may have been floored rather earlier, perhaps in the late
C16. Hall heated by an inserted axial stack which backs onto the passage, service
end by an inserted external end stack with winder stair adjacent. Wing heated by an
internal lateral stack, the shaft now dismantled. All stacks with brick shafts; the
hall stack was rebuilt completely in brick, probably in the C19. 2 storeys.
Exterior Front: 4 window range; 2 and 3-light casement windows to first floor;
three 3-light C20 casement windows to ground floor. Lean-to to right hand end, with
C20 window; single storey extension to left hand end. Winder stair lit by small
square window set in left hand end wall. Rear: 2 first floor casement windows of
different sizes, both with lintels at eaves level. 4 C20 windows and door to ground
floor; the rear passage door has been blocked. Wing with lean-to and C20 casement
windows.
Interior: service end with one and one half cross ceiling beams, chamfered with
step stops; fireplace with chamfered wooden lintel now concealed by an inserted
ovolo-moulded lintel removed from the now demolished Hackworthy Farmhouse
(Cullompton parish). Remains of a plank and muntin screen survive between service
end and through-passage, the muntins chamfered and pegged; hall with chamfered axial
beam with scroll stops; wing fireplace much remodelled, chamfered lintel with run-
out stops; to its left is a seat with what appears to be the housing of a sliding
rail, perhaps to protect children sitting here.
Roof: 3 jointed crucks; a fourth at the lower end has been replaced. The service
end and passage is of 2 bays, the hall of one. The principal of the truss between
the hall and inner room is yoked, and closed, smoke-blackened to hall side (Alcock,
type F2). Diagonal ridge piece throughout; collars removed.

Listing NGR: ST0507106785

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26462915

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