Tinkers Cross

TL 73 SW WETHERSFIELD GOSFIELD ROAD (north side)

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• II

House. Mid-C16, altered in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2-bay main range facing SW with axial stack in right bay, 2-bay crosswing at right with C19 internal stack at rear end. Single-storey lean-to extensions to left of main range and to rear of crosswing. C20 2-storey extension at right rear corner of crosswing. 2 storeys. On each floor, 2 C20 casements and 2 C20 small fixed lights. C20 door, in original position in right bay of main range. The crosswing has an underbuilt jetty and a half-hip at the front. The end of the collar-purlin is visible externally at the front and back of the crosswing. Jowled posts, close studding with curved tension braces trenched to the inside, chamfered beams, plain joists of horizontal section, grooves for sliding shutters, a restored unglazed window in the right upper wall of the crosswing. Substantial restoration with re-used timber, c.1939. Large wood-burning hearth facing to left, with cross-entry to rear of it. Both parts of the house have crownpost roofs with axial braces. RCHM 36, then described as Moneyfields.

Listing NGR: TL7230530344