Description

CULLOMPTON
ST 90 NE
4/55 Coombe Farmhouse
-
- II
Farmhouse. Late C16 or C17. Cob, stone plinth, plastered, under gabled-end slate
roof. Formerly a 3-room, through-passage plan, the higher end to the right of the
passage; no evidence of smoke-blackening in roof space; right-hand external end
stack heats inner room; axial stack backing onto passage heats hall; lower end
subsequently lengthened. 2 storeys throughout.
Front: 5-window range, scattered fenestration; 2 and 3-light C19 casement windows
to ground floor; door to former passage under brick, glazed porch with corrugated
iron roof; another door to the left, into the present kitchen. Right-hand end
elevation with small single-light window forward of stack.
Rear: planked door in C18 surround opposes front entrance to passage; brick and
slate lean-to, with C20 fenestration.
Interior: inner room with 3 axial chamfered beams with hollow step stops, the end
fireplace chamfered; hall with 3 chamfered cross beams with step stops, fireplace
lintel with shallow chamfer. Screens could survive beneath present internal cross-
wall surfaces.

Listing NGR: SS9950906803

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26593686

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)