Castle House (The Spinning Wheel)

TL 7031-7131 5/157 21.12.67

WETHERSFIELD THE GREEN (north side) Castle House (The Spinning Wheel)

GV II

House. Early C16, extended in C18 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Continuous jetty house of 4 bays facing S, with axial stack one bay from right end, C18/C19 stack at left end. C18 extension with gambrel roof to rear of right bay. 2 C20 extensions with flat roofs to rear of remainder. 2 storeys. 3-window range of mid-C19 sashes of 6 lights. C20 door and shop window in right bay. 4 C19 scrolled brackets below jetty. Chapel Cottage encloses the right side and the right front corner, including one original plain bracket below the jetty. Wrought iron lantern bracket with scrolls, adapted to support shop sign. Recessed panels in chimney. Jowled posts, half-height jowls on rear posts, chamfered with step stops. Chamfered binding beams with step stops, axial beams unstopped. Close studding with curved braces trenched to the outside, exposed in Chapel Cottage. Blocked doorway with 4-centred head between right bay and the next. Large wood-burning hearth facing left, reduced for C20 grate. Hearth facing right with depressed arch of plastered brick, plaster guilloche design above, chamfered jambs with 5-leafed plant in plaster, c.1600. On first floor, blocked unglazed window at right end, and diamond mortices for unglazed windows at front. Chamfered tiebeams with step stops, arched braces, clasped purlin roof with arched wind-bracing. RCHM 13.

Listing NGR: TL7110831282