Whitethorn

TL 5457 GREAT WILBRAHAM CHURCH STREET (South West Side)

No.63 (Whitethorn) 13/99 II GV

Cottage, C13-C14 with one bay rebuilt in C16 and later additions of C17 to left hand. Timber frame, rendered with part of rear wall rebuilt in brick C19-C20. Thatched roof of long straw with C19 grey gault brick upper courses to C17-C18 ridge stack. Two bays survive of a single aisled hall, with the aisle on the rear. A third bay to the right hand was rebuilt in C16 and other additions have been made. There is now a lobby entry. One storey and attic. One dormer. Three windows and doorway opposite the stack. Interior: Two bays survive of the original single aisled hall. A third bay existed to the right hand as shown by a mortice for a brace in the arcade post. The arcade plate, at the rear, and the wall plate, at the front, were cut down when the third bay was rebuilt in C16. A stack was inserted into the hall in the late C17. The bricks are narrow red and yellow gault bricks. The front wall of the aisled hall survives. There is no middle rail and the studs, which have wide centres, are tenoned to a sill on a stone plinth. Two arcade posts are visible. The posts are square and of comparatively slender scantling (5 1/2" x 5 1/2") with straight braces to the arcade plate. The posts have plain heads and are tenoned to the arcade plate with a single peg. Two tie beams remain but the joints to the plates are not visible. The arcade posts are tenoned to a small sill beam on a stone or clunch plinth. Part of the tie beam is visible. There are straight braces of shallow pitch between the arcade posts and the tie beam. One of the posts has a mortice for an aisle tie, the other has been mutilated. The rear wall of the aisle has mostly been rebuilt in brick and the roof of the aisle raised, except that some rafters in one bay to the left survive in situ. The roof to the open hall is not visible, although it has been confirmed that it is smoke blackened. The C16 rebuild is of substantial scantling with close set stud work. This bay has a contemporary floor with large unmoulded joists laid flat. There is an original doorway between the open-hall and this C16 bay. Both inner and outer face of the arcade posts are chamfered and there are no mortices in the arcade plate.

Listing NGR: TL5480757731