Waterhales Farmhouse

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TQ59NW HORSEMAN SIDE 723-1/4/496 (North side) 20/02/76 Waterhales Farmhouse (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD HORSEMAN SIDE, Navestock Waterhale Farmhouse)

GV II

House. C16, late C17 and c1800. Timber-framed and rendered with peg-tiled roof. 2 storey, 2 window range. C20 replacement sashes with glazing bars and horns. Pillared porch with panelled door and side lights. INTERIOR: S gabled block facing E mid-C16 high end cross-wing of good quality with heavy flat laid joists (diminished haunched soffit tenons and stepped chamfer stops) and jetty now underbuilt. Doorway leading to former hall has flat 4-centred arched head and rolls and cavetto mouldings. Mortice and wattle holes in door jamb for draught screen protecting high end of hall. Large stair trap at rear of block. Apertures for 2 large projecting windows on both storeys of jettied front (shutter groove upstairs ). Internal tension bracing and halved and bridled scarfs. Prominent stack flanking S wall has tumbled offsets externally and fireplaces on both floors of rebuilt Tudor brick (English bond). Upper chamber has inserted cambered ceiling of later C16 with bridging joists with multiple roll mouldings and smaller mullioned window at rear W end. To W is late C17 timber-framed extension containing stair. Strong basic framing with primary bracing. To N late C17 block replacing earlier hall with framing as W addition and present front door (C20). C17 Brick stack to N. Brick built block filling NW angle c1800 with dentils at eaves, much restored. C20 sash windows and door. Trenches in garden have revealed brick foundations of hall house extending to N. Waterhales Farmhouse forms a group with the barn (qv).

Listing NGR: TQ5387495663