1 And 2, Ufton Fields

SP 36 SE UFTON UFTON FIELDS

1749/3/10002 Nos. 1 and 2

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House, divided into two dwellings. Circa late C14/early C15, remodelled circa C16 and C17; extended circa late C17/early C18. Timber-framed, exposed at rear, faced and extended in stone rubble. Clay plain tile roof with gabled ends. Brick axial and gable-end stacks. PLAN: No.2 is a 3-bay Medieval house, the left [N] two bays an open hall, the right [S] bay also appears to have a smoke-blackened roof, but it seems to have been partitioned from the hall while the hall remained open to the roof. An axial stack was built at the centre of the hall and floors were inserted in about the C16 and C17. In about the late C17 or early C18 a 2-storey 2-room plan stone cross-wing was built at the right [S] end. EXTERIOR: 1 storey and attic, asymmetrical 4-window west front with gabled cross-wing to right [S]. All C20 2 and 3-light casements with glazing bars, attic casements in gabled brick dormers. C20 stone porch to right of centre and plank door in left [N] side of cross-wing. Timber-framing exposed at centre of rear with red brick nogging, brick outshut on left; C20 casements and French windows. INTERIOR: No.2; the left [N] room has a deeply chamfered axial beam and joists with hollow step stops; centre room has deeply chamfered axial beam with broach stops, chamfered joists with hollow step stops and large fireplace with high-level roughly moulded wooden bressumer and small cupboard in fireplace with panelled door; right [S] room has deeply chamfered axial beam and joists with cyma stops. One circa late C17/early C18 panelled door on first floor. 3-bay smoke-blackened Medieval roof with full cruck trusses, the centre and left [N] bays were the open hall with a central arch-braced truss, the chamfered arch braces meeting at cambered collar where the apex has a small ogee arch, the cruck blades have a small saddle at the apex supporting a square-set ridgepiece. The truss at the south end of the hall has a similar apex, the lap-jointed collar is without arch braces; later wattle-and-daub infilling smoke-blackened on the hall side. At the south end there is a tie-beam and collar truss. The trenched purlins have curved wind-braces; common-rafters largely intact. No.1 has a chamfered beam on the ground floor with hollow step stops, a brick fireplace, old plank doors and a winder staircase with simple stick balusters at the top.

Listing NGR: SP3774261814