Sunnyside

TL 3856 COMBERTON SWAYNES LANE (North Side)

9/53 No. 69 (Sunnyside)

GV II

House. Mid-C16 and late C17. Enlargements and alterations of C19 and C20. Timber-framed, rendered on plinth with brick and clay bat to later parts. Combed wheat reed thatch with soft red brick ridge stack of late C17 and rebuilt upper courses. Three bays including one bay to left hand remaining from mid C16 house. Two bays to right hand are late C17. Original C16 house was possibly an open hall, and late C17 plan is a possible lobby entry. Two storeys. Six mid C20 hung sashes to first floor. Extended by a clay bat leanto in C19. This has been enlarged and re-roofed. Inside: Mid C16 timber-frame of uniform scantling with jowelled heads to posts and downward bracing. Ground floor room has ogee stop-chamfered main beams and middle rails, although there have been alterations to middle rail in front wall. There are shutter grooves in front and rear walls on ground floor. Mid C16 closed truss between original bay and late C17 rebuild except for original doorway opening, now part blocked. At first floor similar studwork and sites for diamond mullion window. Through purlin roof with possibly later wind bracing. This bay was possibly the solar end to an open hall. Late C17 two bays have abutting soft red brick inglenook hearths with iron pot-hooks. Some inserted and reset timbers. Braced tiebeams and original elm boarding. Stop-chamfered main beams.

R.C.H.M. West Cambs., mon.(34)

Listing NGR: TL3852556170