Moneyfields

House. Originally dating back to the 16th century, Moneyfields has been significantly altered in the late 17th century, with further additions in the 19th and 20th centuries. The house is timber framed and plastered, with a thatched roof. It comprises a two-bay hall facing southeast, with a large stack in the right bay set against the front wall. To the left is a storeyed parlour/solar bay, originally unstoreyed, and a former service bay originally extended to the right. A one-bay extension was added in the 18th or 19th century. A rear extension, built in 1973, creates a T-shaped layout. It is a single storey with attics. The front features four 20th-century casement windows, two more in swept dormers, a 20th-century door, and grouped diagonal shafts. Inside, a large wooden-burning hearth in the left bay dates back to the late 16th century, with a blocked aperture for a former bread oven in the front wall. A partition wall of the same date stands opposite the hearth, featuring a large curved brace trenched into heavy studs. The original lodged floor in the left bay has longitudinal plain joists with a trimmed stair trap blocked off. Later features include unjowled posts, simple corner joints, straight rising braces, and an inserted floor to the left of the stack with a chamfered transverse beam, longitudinal joists (plastered soffits) supported on pegged clamps, and rebated floorboards. To the right of the stack is another inserted floor with a chamfered axial beam and plain joists in wider mortices. All original tiebeams are present, with one severed. The roof retains unsooted coupled rafters. This building is distinct from the house previously described as Moneyfields in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments survey, and should be differentiated from the property at Tinkers Cross, Gosfield Road, item 1/146.