Description

MOLLAND
SS 82 NW
15/47 Cuckoo Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse, latterly public house. Mid-to late C17, with minor late C19 alterations.
Rendered over stone rubble and cob. Gable ended Welsh-slate roof. Axial and end
stacks with short rendered shafts.
Plan and development: 3-room baffle-entry plan, with axial stack between 2 right-
hand rooms and integral end stack to left-hand room. C17 rectangular stair projection
to rear right-hand stack. Probably C19 1-storey lean-to additions flanking stair
projection at rear with that part to rear of left-hand end probably heightened in the
C20. 2 storeys, with lean-to outshuts at rear of 1 and 2 storeys.
Exterior: Asymmetrical 3-window front; late C19 2 and 3-light wooden casements. C19
boarded door with beaded frame, between first and second windows from left. Gabled
stone porch with stone lintel and wooden side benches inside.
Interior: Central ground-floor room with plain cross beam and half beams, and open
stone fireplace with plain wooden lintel and bread oven with C19 cast-iron door.
Evidence of former bench on left-hand wall and front wall. Probable stud wall
between central and left-hand ground-floor room with 2-panelled door of c.1700 left-
hand ground-floor room with rough cross beam, rebuilt fireplace with wooden lintel
and segmental-arched recess to left, and window seat. Right-hand ground-floor room
(kitchen) with blocked old fireplace. Old boarded door to left and right of entrance
lobby, and old boarded doors to first-floor rooms. Late C17 roof with 7 principal-
rafter trusses.

Listing NGR: SS8303925718

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26508222

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Recommended Books

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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)