Claypit Hall Farmhouse

TL 63 SE 3/211

GREAT BARDFIELD WETHERSFIELD ROAD (north side) Claypit Hall Farmhouse

II

House. C16 and C17, altered in C18 and C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2-bay hall range aligned approx. N-S, C16, and entrance/stair hall to S. 4-bay crosswing to S with central stack, early C17, forming a lobby-entrance house of L-plan. Stair tower in left rear angle, early C17. C18 extension to left of rear bay of hall range, and C19 single-storey extension with slate roof to rear of it. Front range of 2 storeys and attics, hall range of 2 storeys. Ground floor, 2 early C19 sashes of 16 lights. First floor, 2 similar sashes and one of 12 lights. Central 6-panel door in moulded doorcase with shallow hood on scrolled brackets, early C19. Front range has a gambrel roof, half-hipped at both ends. The right return wall has 2 C17/C18 3- light windows, each with a wrought iron casement and early glass, and 2 C19 horizontally sliding sashes of 12 lights. The rear elevation has an C18 2-light window with one wrought iron casement. The interior of the hall range has a chamfered axial beam with plain joists of square section supported on pegged clamps, and a rebuilt roof. The front range has chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops over ground and first floors. The stair tower has an original octagonal newel post terminating in a square knob.

Listing NGR: TL6830030655