Lower Gatley End Farmhouse

TL 24 SE STEEPLE MORDEN ROYSTON ROAD (East Side)

4/229 Lower Gatley End Farmhouse (Rook Grove Farmhouse) II

House, formerly a farmhouse. Late C14 with late C16, late C17 or C18, and C19 alterations and additions. Timber-framed, plastered and clap boarded; some C16 or earlier brick nogging. Steeply pitched plain tiled roofs hipped to right hand return. Two gault brick end stacks and ridge stack. Two storeys. Originai building possibly of three unit plan with central open hall; late C16 parlour wing to south-east and late C17 or early C18 addition in angle. West elevation: Two ground floor and three first floor C20 casement windows, C20 glazed lean-to porch and glazed door. Interior: Surviving C14 structure exposed with vacant mortices to posts and internal partitions, wall plates with splayed undersquinted butted scarf joints and evidence of a diamond mullioned first floor window with shutter groove in north bays centre-tenoned floor joists with later crude chamfers possibly resited in south bay. Roll-moulded beams and joists to south-east room and exposed timber-frame at first floor. Late C17 inserted floor across original hall and bay to north. Three hearths, altered or sealed. C17 and C18 doors one with cocks head hinges. Roof not seen.

Hewitt, C. English Historic Carpentry

Listing NGR: TL2948741682