Fowler'S Farmhouse

CRESSING BRAINTREE ROAD TL 72 SE (east side)

1/40 Fowler's Farmhouse

II

House. Circa 1400, extended in C18 and C19. Timber framed and brick, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2 bays aligned NE-SW; C18 single-storey extension to SE, with end stack, and lean-to extension to SW; mid-C19 brick range to NW, now forming entrance range, with 2 internal rear stacks. 2 storeys and cellar. Ground floor, 2 pairs of sashes, each of 2 + 2 horizontal lights with crown glass, mid-C19; first floor, 2 similar sashes, and central sash of 4 + 4 vertical lights. Central 4-panel door in gabled porch of plastered brick with C19 serpentine bargeboards. Similar sashes in each return of the entrance range. The middle range is jettied at both ends, with at the NE end 3 wide plain brackets and an early C19 sash of 10 + 10 lights on each floor, and at the SW end 2 wide plain brackets and a horizontal sash of 6 + 6 lights on the ground floor. This range has a boxed-in binding beam, joists plastered to the soffits, and a crownpost roof with cross-quadrate central crownpost with broach stops and wide 4-way rising braces. The rear extension has primary straight bracing, and incorporates some re-used medieval timber. The middle range was originally the crosswing of an open hall which extended to lilt or SE, the remainder demolished. A cambered tiebeam in the present service range may be from it.

Listing NGR: TL7792821905