Kennett End

TL 76 NW 7/133

KENNETT

BURY ROAD (north side)

Kennett End

GV II

Farmhouse. Late C15 divided into two dwellings in C19. Timber-framed and plastered with modern plain tile roof and later rear outshut. Large C16 ridge stack of local red brick with dentil string course and three reduced octagonal shafts with moulded bases rebuilt in local yellow brick possibly in C17. End stack to west of similar brick. Two storeys with attics. Three modern first floor and ground floor casement windows with half glazed door to left hand. Three unit plan with central open hall with chamber over the parlour to the east internally jettied. The jetty was removed when the chimney was inserted and part of the attic floor. The closed truss to west of hall is complete. The C15 floor frames have joists with centre tenons; soffit tenons to attic floors also of C15 date. Hall floor frame inserted in C17 has an axial beam with ovolo moulding. Side purlin roofs at each end intact, re-used crown-post roof timbers over hall possibly a C17 reconstruction. Re-used door head in attic. One diamond mullion window and shutter grooves visible. Other details masked by plaster, (lack of smoke blackening in hall would suggest an original rear side stack to hall, removed in C16, when outshut was added and internal stack constructed).

Listing NGR: TL7026666692