Description

CULLOMPTON
SS 90 NE
4/78 Shutelake Farmhouse
-
- II
Former farmhouse. Possibly C16. Stone with some cob, plastered, under gabled-end
slate and pantiled roofs. Formerly a 3-room, through-passage plan with wings to rear
of parlour and lower-end, and a barn extension forward of lower end. End stack to
parlour, rear external lateral stack to hall, end stack to parlour wing; all with
brick shafts. 2 storeys throughout.
Front: 4-window range, 3 of 3-lights, and 1 small single light window to left-hand
side with large exposed lintel; large 3-light casement window to both hall and
parlour; glazed C20 door to passage; front barn projects with roof ridge at a much
lower level than main range, 2 doors and hay loft access, the front end partly
weatherboarded. The left-hand elevation above steeply falling ground is much
buttressed, and with three 3-light windows to each floor. Right-hand elevation, two
2-light casement windows possibly retaining C17 or C18 frames.
Rear: no windows to end faces of wings (although stone flat-roofed extension to
parlour wing has C20 fenestration); two 3-light windows (1 occupying rear entrance to
passage) to right of external stack with big slated set-off; lower end wing (inner
face= with two 3-light windows to 1st floor, and also to ground-floor, 1 of which has
chamfered jambs and mullions.
Interior: several unchamfered ceiling beams, also a chamfered bressumer morticed to
receive higher end screen to passage. The hall is deeply chamfered with hollow step
stops.
Roof: rear blades of 2 jointed crucks survive, smoke-blackened; the roof has
otherwise been renewed on several occasions.

Listing NGR: SS9781707501

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26593660

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