Description

EAST WORLINGTON CUDDENHAY LANE
SS 71 NE
4/14
Cuddenhay Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. Mid or late C17. Rubble and cob, rough-plastered and colourwashed,
gabled corrugated iron sheeting roof, gable end stacks with tall rubble shafts.
Plan: symmetrical front, 2-room plan with wide passage to centre with staircase at
the back; kitchen running the full depth of the house to the right; shallower
parlour to left with dairy at rear, dairy reached from kitchen by a short passage,
behind the central staircase, part of dairy projects in a shallow wing at rear; both
kitchen and parlour heated by gable stacks.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical, 3 windows, 2-light mid C19 casements with close-
set glazing bars. Central door opening into the entrance passage, plank door, C19
porch. Dairy wing with a 4-light C17 wooden mullioned window on first floor.
Interior with kitchen with chamfered cross ceiling beam full depth of house with
ogee-stops; similar half-beam to gable wall; large fireplace with wooden bressumer
and mantleshelf, opening blocked; passage with a repositioned late C19 staircase at
back, C18 2-panelled doors. Parlour with a double ovolo-moulded ceiling beam, ogee-
stops; similar half-beam to the gable wall, fireplace with dressed stone jambs and
a single ovolo-moulded wooden bressumer. Dairy with axial chamfered ceiling beam
with stops.
Roof: not inspected.
This is a most interesting and unusual C17 transitional plan.

Listing NGR: SS7610215474

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26464571

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas