Little Lampetts

BLACKMORE

TQ69NW HAY GREEN LANE 723-1/6/26 (South East side) 04/06/92 Little Lampetts

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Formerly known as: Hay Green Farm Cottages HAY GREEN LANE. House. C17, extended in C18 and C19. Timber-framed, weatherboarded, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays facing N with central stack, extended by one bay at each end in C18. 2 storeys. Original lean-to stair annexe to rear, and C19 lean-to to rear of it, of red brick roofed with red clay pantiles. C20 conservatory to left of stair annexe. C19 single-storey lean-to at each end, the left roofed with red clay pantiles, the right with handmade red clay tiles. 4-window range of C20 casements. C20 door. Roof half-hipped at each end. INTERIOR: the timber frame includes much elm and some reused oak. Unjowled posts, primary straight bracing. Chamfered axial beam in each bay; plain joists of vertical section in all but the bay to left of the stack. This bay has a reused axial beam with empty mortices for studs, and reused joists of horizontal section, chamfered with lamb's tongue stops, and some plain joists of square section. The axial beam in the left bay is also reused, with step stops. Most of the studded partition between the 2 ground-floor rooms to right of the stack has been removed; 2 sharply curved timbers have been introduced since 1960. The right hearth has been re-bricked; it contains an introduced cast-iron fireback dated 1622; the left hearth is blocked. Original boarded and ledged pine door at foot of stair. Boarded and ledged oak door between 2 ground-floor rooms to left of stack. In the rear wall on the first floor are 2 large original apertures for glazed windows, blocked. The upper right room has original wallplates and end tie-beam approximately one metre above floor level, and others aligning with the remainder of the house. The scarf joints in the wallplates of the original house are of unusual face-halved type. Queen-post roof incorporating some smoke-blackened rafters from a medieval hall. This was built as one house, extended to form 2 similar cottages with shared stack, now one house. Photographs in the possession of the owner show that the present windows were installed before 1960. Shown in estate map of 1832. The lean-to at the left end was being altered at the time of inspection, February 1989. (Essex Record Offices: D/DQ 50/6).

Listing NGR: TL6055100023