Cresley'S Farmhouse

CRESSING CHURCH ROAD TL 71 NE (east side)

4/51 Cresley's Farmhouse

GV II

Wrongly shown on OS map as New House. House. Early C17, extended in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 4 bays facing SW, with axial stack in second bay from right end, and partly external stack at left end. Long early C20 wing behind left end, connecting house with C18/19 ancillary building, and C20 extension in E angle, with rear jetty. 2 storeys. 3 C20 casements on ground floor, 4 on first floor, and 2 in gabled dormers. C20 door at front of gabled porch. Ovolo-moulded cornices on both stacks. 4 grouped octagonal shafts on main stack, 2 on left stack. Jowled posts, heavy studding with primary straight bracing, chamfered axial beams in all rooms on both storeys. All have lamb's tongue stops except that in the right ground floor room, which has lamb's tongues and additional notches. Plain joists of vertical section. On the ground floor the left stack has a C20 grate; the main stack has a wide wood-burning hearth with brick depressed arch facing left, and a smaller, similar hearth facing right, reduced for a C20 grate. On the first floor both hearths of the main stack have brick depressed arches; that facing left has an early C19 cast iron grate; that facing right is reduced for a C20 grate. In the same stack, facing forwards on the first floor, is a small cupboard with original plain door for spices, gunpowder, etc. Original clasped purlin roof. RCHM 10.

Listing NGR: TL8002519458