Goward'S Farmhouse

TL 4246 THRIPLOW MIDDLE STREET (West Side) 13/313 No. 28 (Goward's Farmhouse) 22.11.67 GV II Farmhouse, now a house. Late C15 with late C16 alterations. Timber-framed and plastered. Plain tiled roof. Late C17 ridge stack to right of centre with sawtooth tile and moulded brick cornice. Tarred brick plinth. Two storeys with attics. Three unit plan with original open hall and chambered end rooms. North elevation: C19 six-panelled door in lobby entry position with moulded wooden architrave and flat canopy on shaped brackets. Three ground floor sixteen-paned hung sash windows rebated for shutters, three similar first floor windows. Interior: Fireplace to west room, late C16 with leaf-stops to mantel beam and leaf-stop to replacement floor beams. Sealed late C16 ovolo mullioned window in hall with inserted floor and large fireplace with chamfered mantel beam. The exposed C15 frame shows some burnt marks. The roof appears to have been reconstructed as a side purlin wind- braced roof in the late C16 reusing some C15 material. First floor fireplace in room to west of brick with four-centred arch, cornice of bull-nosed bricks and plaster frieze painted with dots and crosses. R.C.H.M. Report 1950 V.C.H., Vol. VI, p.239

Listing NGR: TL4390046296