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Listed building outline: Home Farmhouse 390555

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Home Farmhouse 390555

• geometry: MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.557535 50.462876,-3.557565 50.462872,-3.557590...
• entry-date: 1975-01-10
• listed-building: 1208419
• name: Home Farmhouse
• notes: Formerly known as: Manor Farmhouse COCKINGTON LANE Cockington. Farmhouse. Early C17 with various later alterations. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings (exposed to rear); stone rubble chimneyshaft raised with brick; asbestos tile roof with crested ridge tiles, formerly thatched. PLAN: L-plan farmhouse. Main block faces roughly west, is built across the hillslope and terraced into it at the rear. It has a 2-room plan with stairhall between. Larger northern room has large projecting rear lateral stack. Second stair in lower northern service crosswing which contains former dairy. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics in main block. Tall building with irregular 2-window front, mostly C20 casements but also an early C17 4-light oak window with chamfered mullions. Front doorway right of centre contains probably C19 panelled door behind C20 porch. Left return wall of crosswing contains early C17 moulded oak doorframe containing contemporary studded plank door with applied 6-panel front, strap hinges and working lock. Main roof gable-ended to right and hipped to left where it is carried down over the crosswing. INTERIOR: Mostly the result of C19 and C20 modernisations but some later C17/early C18 joinery including a fielded 3-panel door. The dairy retains its slate shelves. Home Farmhouse with its farmbuildings forms part of an exceptionally attractive group of listed buildings in an unspoilt village and the adjacent Cockington Park. Listing NGR: SX8954163719
• reference: 390555
• start-date: 1975-01-10