Applegates

TL 73 NE 4/41 19.9.80

GREAT YELDHAM CHURCH ROAD, East Side Applegates

GV II

House, c.1400, converted for use as a public building, extended C18 and C19, now a house. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2-bay hall aligned NE-SW with C17 axial chimney stack in NE bay. Integral storeyed parlour/solar bay to SW, integral storeyed service bay to NE. Late C17/early C18 2-bay extension to NW of NE bay, and additional C19 bay, forming an L-plan. 2-storey extension to SE of axial chimney stack, C19. External chimney stack to NW of SW bay, C18/19. 2 storeys. SW elevation, C20 door in tiled gabled porch, 2 C20 casement windows and one C20 double-hung sash window on each floor. C19 window in facade gable, dummy. The axial chimney stack has 4 octagonal shafts, C16/17, reduced in height. The SW stack has 2 C19 octagonal shafts. The interior has jowled posts, heavy studding, plain joists of horizontal section. The crownpost roof retains the original hips and gablets at both ends, inside the later gables. One cross-quadrate crown-post is present, the 2 side braces missing, the collar-purlin and collars complete, smoke-blackened. The wallplate scarfs are edge-halved and bridled. This building is illustrated in Muilman in 1770 as The School House. 'The Free School for the poor boys occupies the site of an old tenement called Ford's, which had been long held by the parish for charitable uses, but was converted into a school and master's house in 1692' (White's Directory, 1848, 722). RCHM 10.

Listing NGR: TL7587638624