Rayners Farmhouse

TL 4648 WHITTLESFORD NORTH ROAD (South side) 10/337 22.11.67 No.59 (Rayners Farmhouse GV II* Farmhouse. Late C15 or early C16 with late C16,C18 and C19 modifications and additions. Timber-framed and plastered, plain tiled roofs. Late C16 square planned red brick ridge stack with grouped shafts to left hand and gable end stack with two diagonal shafts to right hand. Two storeys with attic and semi basement. Original five bay long jetty building altered in late C16 to present plan of cross wing to left hand with two storey porch and lobby entry. Jetty with curved brackets at each of three bays with large C15 roll-moulded mullioned and transomed oriel window to right hand of six-panelled door. First floor C15 oriel window with brackets and cill possible replacements of an original moulded cill. Boarded door to porch with sealed window above and in gable of cross wing. Interior: C15 hollow-chamfered cross beams and cambered tie beams with deeply chamfered crown post braced to collar purlin and collar. Late C16 inserted doorways, attic floor with wave-moulded ceiling beam, clunch fire places with four centred arches partly sealed by inserted C19 hearths. Early C17 panelling in ground floor room. RCHM report 1949 VCH Vol.VI p.264,270

Listing NGR: TL4655348598