Little Myles Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Brentwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1976. House. 1 related planning application.
Little Myles Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-gutter-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brentwood
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1976
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Myles Farmhouse is a house dating back to around 1500, with significant alterations in approximately 1560, the 17th century, around 1800, and the 20th century. It is primarily timber-framed, with rendered and pebble-dashed walls, brick sections, and a peg-tiled roof. The house has a T-shaped layout.
The north front has four window bays. The windows are mostly 20th-century replacements, except for one from around 1800, with sash windows and a 3x4 pane design. The ground floor features two 20th-century sash windows, a 19th-century front door within a 20th-century boarded frame, and a porch with a Chinese fretwork design. The original wood front panels remain, with 20th-century restoration to the side panels, and a sheet metal canopy topped with a carved wooden gripping hand. A single 20th-century casement window (4x3 panes) is also present. An additional unit to the east features a large 20th-century casement window. The first floor mirrors the ground floor with two 20th-century sashes and one sash window from around 1800. The roof has a half-hipped section at the west end and a full hip at the east. There are two brick chimney stacks, likely rebuilt in the 19th century.
The south rear elevation is complex. The main range on the west has a stair tower projecting in front of a western chimney stack. To the east are two gabled projections. The easternmost unit is lower and visible on the front elevation. The ground floor on the south side includes a 20th-century casement window, a 20th-century boarded door with a simple lean-to hood, a stair tower with a 19th-century sash window, French doors with semicircular tops and iron frames, a 19th-century boarded door, and a 20th-century stable-style boarded door alongside a casement window. The first floor is similarly punctuated with casement windows and a stair tower. A 19th-century stack and remnants of a bread oven sit on the south gable end of the T-wing extension.
The interior shows a complex development spanning several phases. Initially, around 1500, it was a two-storey timber-framed building with an open hall and a decorated post. A 1560 floor addition incorporated flat-laid joists with haunched tenons. The 17th century saw the addition of a timber-framed range to the north, east, and west, encapsulating older parts and including a stair tower. A lower unit to the east, dating from the 17th century, has joists with lamb's tongue chamfer stops. Around 1800, a timber-framed extension was built to the south of the original wing, including a fireplace and bread oven. A 20th-century restoration phase completed the building's evolution.
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