Hillside

TL 73 SW WETHERSFIELD BLACKMORE END ROAD (south-west side)

1/94 Hillside 18.5.78

GV II

House. Early C16, altered in C18 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays facing N, extended to left by one bay in C18, with axial stack at the junction. 2 storeys. Ground floor, 3 late C19 bays of sashes, 2-6-2 lights. First floor, one C19 horizontal sash of 12 lights and one late C19 sash of 6 lights. 4-panel door with simple hood on profiled brackets. Roof hipped at left end, hipped with a gablet at right end. Original sprockets below eaves at front, rear and right end. The original building has jowled posts, heavy studding with curved braces trenched to the outside, chamfered axial beams, and plain joists of horizontal section jointed to them with soffit tenons and diminished haunches. Trimmed stair trap in rear left corner of right bay. Some wattle and daub infill still present at time of survey, October 1984, while house was undergoing renovation. Crownpost roof with arched axial bracing. The left extension has thinner studding, primary straight bracing, unjowled posts, an axial beam with joists of vertical section, and a clasped purlin roof. 2 large wood-burning hearths of 0.23 metre brickwork, back to back.

Listing NGR: TL7378630948