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TL 7229 SHALFORD BRAINTREE ROAD (west side)

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GV II

House. C.1590, altered in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 4 bays facing NE, with axial stack in second bay from left end, forming lobby-entrance. Crosswing at right end with stack at junction. Single-storey extensions at and behind left end. 2 storeys. Ground floor, one mid-C19 sash of 6 lights, 2 C20 casements, C20 square bay. C20 door with bracketed hood. Sprockets below eaves at front and right return. Grouped diagonal shafts on main stack. Chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, chamfered joists of horizontal section with lamb's tongue stops. Jowled posts, curved tension braces trenched inside heavy studding. The left bay has 2 unglazed windows, with diamond mortices on the ground floor, 2 diamond mullions on the first floor. No shutter grooves or rebates, other windows glazed from the outset. Large wood-burning hearth, mantel beam chamfered with lamb's tongue stops. Clasped purlin roof with arched wind bracing. No visible dating features in crosswing. RCHM 7.

Listing NGR: TL7225329130