Wishfields Farmhouse

TQ59NE 723-1/5/328

DODDINGHURST DAYS LANE (East side) Wishfields Farmhouse

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House. Late C16, early C19 and C20. Timber-framing, weatherboarded and brick, roofs peg-tiled and slate. Two 2-storey ranges set at right angles, timber one aligned N-S and brick one E-W. C20 brick outshut to W of timber range and C20 ground-floor extension of outshut to N. EXTERIOR: W front of timber range has 4 irregular C20 wooden casement windows and C20 boarded door. Deep catslide, peg-tiled roof and small stack c1800 to N end. Brick block to S - gable end with red bricks, Flemish bond, single windows on ground and first floor, segment headed soffits, C20 replacement sash windows with simple horns, glazing bars, 4x4 panes. Low pitched slated gable. Principal early C19 stack at junction of blocks and a minor early C19 stack on N side of brick section. S elevation, brick, symmetrical 3 window range, upper windows flat headed, lower segment headed. All C20 sashes of same type as on W front with 4x4 panes except ground floor central window, a 3-light wooden casement, glazing bars, each light 2x3 panes which replaces the original front door, doorstep remains. Rear E elevation - brick gabled end with C20 ground-floor bay window in brick, hipped C20 machine-made tiled roof, 4-light, wooden casements, glazing bars, each 2x3 panes. First floor, 3-light, wooden casements, each 2x4 panes. Timber range to N weatherboarded C20, French doors with 2x4 panes in each door. Simple 4x3 light casement windows. C20 extension to N, set back, 3light casement, each light 2x3 panes. INTERIOR shows 3 building phases. (1) N timber-framed block, 2 bays, early primary bracing and edge halved and bridled scarf in wall plate, internal corner bracing on first floor. Ground floor all one room with shutter groove and stud evidence of window in S end and ceiling joists in S bay probably later replacements with a stair trap. Joists in N bay original, some diminished haunched soffit tenons. First floor partitioned into 2 using heavy primary bracing, chiselled carpenters' assembly marks, tie-beam slight camber, roof side purlin with clasping collars, curved windbraces from each outer corner, partitioning taken up to central collar. Shutter groove for window in S gable end (over one below) Absence of peg holes in W gable inplies another window position. Exterior face of S gable end weathered, chimney-stack base, red brick, exposed on ground floor built over site of window, probably late C17. Phase (2) Brick unit to S central stair and hallway from S front. Additional C19 stack at rear for rooms W of hallway. Interior plain, and fireplaces now masked. Phase (3) C20 brick outshut to W of timber range and re-alignment of entry to W side. Also C20 N extension.

Listing NGR: TQ5895397174