Three Ways

BLACKMORE

TL60SW CHELMSFORD ROAD 723-1/2/126 (North side) 20/02/76 Three Ways (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD ELKINS GREEN, Blackmore Three Ways)

II

House. c1400, altered C16. Timber-framed, plastered and weatherboarded, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Main range of 2 bays facing S, mid to late C16, and 2-bay cross-wing to left, c1400. Axial stack in main range against cross-wing, much rebuilt. 2 storeys. Single storey lean-to to right of main range, and C20 single-storey wing to rear of cross-wing. 2-window range of C19/20 casements. C20 door in gabled porch. Front and rear elevations plastered, with exposed false framing on front gable; side elevations weatherboarded. The upper storey of the cross-wing is of exceptional height; the ridge of the main range overlays that of the cross-wing, but the eaves are lower. INTERIOR: jowled posts, heavy studding. The main range has arched corner bracing inside the studs, and a butt-purlin roof exposed from below. Complete unglazed windows in the front tie-beam and left wallplate, and a crownpost roof with axial bracing, exposed from below. The binding beam has jointing for central tenons, but all the joists have been replaced by C20 replicas of seasoned hardwood, crudely chamfered. The joists in the main range have been replaced similarly, but it is not clear whether the axial beam is original. The fireplaces have been rebuilt in ranch style, open on 4 sides.

Listing NGR: TL6085802068