Newlyn

House at Newlyn

An early 14th-century aisled hall with crosswings added in two phases during the 16th and 17th centuries. The main aisled hall is timber-framed with plaster render and old tile roofs, with three ridge stacks. One stack, inserted into the aisled hall in the early 17th century, features a red brick base with moulded brick cornice and diagonally set grouped shafts. The other two stacks, dating to the mid-late 17th century, are similar in design with red brick, moulded brick to the cornice base, three rectangular shafts, and an entablature linked at the capping.

The original plan shows the aisled hall with service and solar bays in line, with an aisle on the south side now removed. A western crosswing and southeastern wing were subsequently added, creating the present house which now appears to follow a conventional hall with double-ended crosswing plan. The building is two storeys, with 19th-century fenestration including flush frame sashes in opening boxing to the gable ends of the crosswing and wing. Both wings retain original window openings with ovolo mullions. The main doorway serves the aisled hall, with the aisle extending along the entire rear wall of the main range.

The northwest crosswing dates to approximately 1550 and has two storeys with the first floor jettied at its northwest end. The framing shows later red brick infill, with shallow stud bracing to the walls similar to that found in the crosswing at the Maltings, High Street, Haslingfield. Original window openings feature diamond mullions.

Internally, a chimney stack and floor were inserted into the hall in the late 16th or early 17th century, featuring a stop-chamfered main beam and a clunch and red brick inglenook. The service bay to the northeast has been rebuilt. The hall roof is a crown post roof with straight, upward, four-way bracing. The crown post is chamfered with broach stops, with similar bracing between the arcade posts and the plate. The roof is sooted throughout. A closed truss between the hall and service end has exposed framing with downward bracing to the riddle rail. The principal truss over the hall remains intact.

Structural evidence for the early date of the aisled hall includes passing braces terminating at the collar and splayed scarf joints in the arcade plates. Some beams from the solar of the early 14th-century house were reused in the west crosswing. The western crosswing comprises two building periods, with the northwest wing probably the earlier of the two, arranged in two bays with diamond mullions to the window openings. The southwest crosswing was probably rebuilt from an earlier crosswing dating to approximately the 15th century. Its roof incorporates rafters from a crown-post roof. Late 16th-century fireplaces in this wing feature four-centred chamfered arches. The ground floor ceiling has intersecting main beams. The southeastern crosswing dates to the mid-17th century and features an original red brick hearth with a four-centred chamfered arch. A late 17th-century flat section baluster staircase is located in the west crossing.