Description

MOLLAND SS 82 NW 15/41 Abbot's Park and short section of - garden wall adjoining to south II Farmhouse, now house. Early to mid C17, probably incorporating late-Medieval fabric. Late C19 alterations and late C20 additions. Rendered, probably over stone rubble or cob. Corrugated-asbestos roof, gable-ended to left and hipped to right. Rubble square axial stack with weatherings and cap. Cob wall with tiled coping. Plan and development: C17 2-room baffle-entry plan, facing south. Probably a remodelling of a late-Medieval 3-room and cross-or-through-passage plan house. 2 rooms to left flanking stack with central baffle entrance. Putative cross passage to right of right-hand room with putative service room (now kitchen) beyond. It appears that in the Cl7 the lower room and former cross passage (entrance blocked) were retained as service rooms and that the former hall and inner room to left were altered by the insertion of the axial stack with baffle entrance and staircase to rear. Continuous lean-to outshut at rear probably a C17 addition (see window). Axial passage in lean-to, and small room behind left-hand ground-floor room with probably early C17 winder staircase, possibly pre-dating the principal C17 remodelling. The service end appears to have been altered and reduced to a lean-to, possibly in the late C19 or early C20 (see lean-to roof). Probably C18 1-storey lean-to at front to right incorporating what might have been a kennel below. Late C20 glazed porch to right-hand door and C20 stone porch to front door. Further late C20 alterations including 1-room plan addition to left and part of lean-to to rear of kitchen converted to garage. Two storeys with 1-storey lean-to. Exterior: Asymmetrical 3-window front; late C19 2-and 3-light wooden casements. Ground floor 1-light wooden casement to right. C19 boarded door between first and second windows from left with pegged chamfered wooden frame and C20 low-pitched stone porch. C20 half-glazed door to right-hand end; C20 glazed lean-to porch has probably C17 ribbed and nail-studded boarded door with wrought-iron strap hinges (door probably reused from front doorway). Section of garden wall adjoining at right angles to left of porch, with boarded door. 1-storey lean-to addition to right with small ground-floor window to right-hand return front and probable former kennel below with stone reveals to opening and wooden lintel. C20 addition to left-hand end of house with flat-topped semi dormer and 4-light French casements. C17 3-light leaded chamfered mullioned oak window in lean-to to rear of stack, with deeply-splayed oak reveals. Interior: Largely early to mid-C17 fixtures and fittings. Ground-floor rooms to left and right of stack have deep chamfered cross beams and half beams with scroll stops. Large open stone fireplace in ground-floor room to left of stack, with dressed stone jambs and chamfered wooden lintel with scroll stops. C18 cupboard in wall to right of front window in left-hand room, with 2 raised and fielded panels. Open stone fireplace in room to right of stack with dressed stone reveals, plain wooden lintel and bread oven. C17 segmental-headed boarded doors with beaded frames, 2 in entrance lobby and one in rear wall of each ground-floor rooms to left and right of stack. Former cross passage to right with late C19 pump. Old boarded door between ground-floor room to right of stack and former cross passage. Small room in lean-to to rear of left-hand ground-floor room; c.1600 doorway with carpenter's- mitred narrow-chamfered frame. Old oak winder stair, in corner of room. Three early to mid-C17 doorways with mason's-mitred joints and wide chamfers with curved runout stops, one to rear ground-floor corridor, one to left-hand bedroom with C17 panelled door and one to cupboard by stack in left-hand bedroom (minus door). Old boarded door to bedroom to right of stack. Roof appears to be C17, with A-frame trusses.

Listing NGR: SS8001427164

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)