Description

SX 79 NE CREDITON HAMLETS YEOFORD

6/149 Cuckoobush

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. C16, remodelled in late C17. Plastered cob on rubble
footings; stone stacks, topped with C19 brick; concrete pantile roof to front,
corrugated asbestos to rear (formerly thatch). 2-room plan with central cross
passage connecting front door to stair in turret projecting to rear. Gable-end
stacks. Faces south-west. 2 storeys. Balanced 3-window front of C19 and C20 2
and 3-light wooden casements of consistent style and all with glazing-bars.
Central door under C20 open-sided timber porch with hipped roof of shingles.
Right-end stack preserves its original volcanic ashlar chimney shaft, topped with
C19 brick.
Interior has C17 service room beyond cob cross wall to left (north west) of passage
and parlour to right. Service stack has both its ground and first floor fireplaces
blocked. Parlour has ogee-moulded crossbeam with ornate scroll stops and exposed
volcanic ashlar fireplace with chamfered and straight-cut stopped oak lintel.
Stone winder stair now hidden by pine treads and risers. A simple ornamental
plasterwork on cob wall of passage has a moulded surround, simple fleur de lys
motif and records the date 1695 with the initials I M A. It is obviously reset,
probably from a chimney breast. Roof over parlour is supported on 2 boxed-in
possibly jointed cruck trusses of large scantling. In the roofspace parlour roof
is smoke blackened and it seems that the house formerly extended further to
southeast. Apparently former passage and service room were demolished in late
C17, a cross passage inserted to upper end of hall, inner room converted to service
function and house was refurbished throughout.

Listing NGR: SX7839399130

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26549616

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Recommended Books

• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990