Old Wills Farmhouse

TL 82 SE 3/107

FEERING LITTLE TEY ROAD (east side) Old Wills Farmhouse

GV II

Shown on OS map as Old Wills. House. C14/15, altered in C16 and C20. Timber framed, plastered with frame partly exposed and some artificial framing, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 3-bay main range facing NE with late C16 stack at the left end against the front wall, and internal stack at the right end. 2-bay crosswing to left, with small single-storey extension to the rear. C19 wing of painted brick to the left, with internal stack at the junction. Jettied crosswing to right, of main range, c.1920, with axial stack. 2 storeys and one storey with attics. Ground floor, 4 C20 casements with diamond leading. First floor, 2 similar casements. C17 re-sited door of moulded planks, altered at bottom, in reproduction 4-centred doorhead with modern carved date 1528 and ovolo-moulded canopy. The left crosswing is jettied to the front, with 2 original wide plain brackets and one reproduction. Jowled posts, heavy studding with curved tension braces trenched to the outside. The crosswing has plain joists of large horizontal section; ceiled, probably to the collars of a crownpost roof. The main range has a large wood-burning hearth facing to the right of 0.33 metre brickwork, a late C16 inserted floor with plain joists of square section jointed to the axial beam with soffit tenons with diminished haunches, roof altered. RCHM 15.

Listing NGR: TL8789121103