Description

MOLLAND
SS 82 NW
15/55 Lyddon's Cottage
- II
Farmhouse, latterly divided. Mid-C17, remodelled in the late C19. Rendered stone
rubble and cob to first floor. Gable ended scantle-slate roof. Stone stacks with C19
brick shafts at gable ends.
Plan and development: C17 3-room plan, facing south-east. Unheated central room
with passage in front between; end rooms with external end stacks. 2 dog-leg
staircases, one in right-hand room, and one in central room with foot in left-hand
room, one at least probably dating from when the house was divided. Eaves probably
raised at the same time too. 2 storeys.
Exterior: Nearly symmetrical 3-window front; C19 3-light wooden casements, those on
ground floor with segmental heads. 2 segmental-headed C19 boarded doors between
windows to left and right. Raking stone buttresses to left of right-hand door and to
right of right-hand window.
Interior: Ground-floor end rooms have ovolo-moulded cross beams with scroll stops.
Left-hand room with chamfered half beam too. Old boarded door with H-L hinges at
foot of stairs in right-hand room. First-floor rooms and roof-space not inspected.

Listing NGR: SS8032227629

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