17, Navestock Side

NAVESTOCK

TQ59NE NAVESTOCK SIDE 723-1/5/505 (West side) 20/02/76 No.17 (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD NAVESTOCK SIDE, Navestock Nos.17 AND 18 The Crooked Cottage)

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House, divided into two, now one. Mid-C16 and late C17 with C20 additions. Timber-framed, plastered and weatherboarded with peg-tiled roof. One storey and attic with gabled dormer and central stack. Roof half-hipped at W with minor stack. 2 storeyed cross-wing at E with front hip and minor stack on E wall. Windows C20 wooden casements with rectangular leaded lights. C20 porch with boarded door. INTERIOR: the house comprises a medieval open hall (sooted roof) and jettied service cross-wing. Both units have crown posts with thin board-like braces. Cross-wing first floor retains mullion holes and shutter grooves for windows front and back and the frame has rising internal braces with a slight curve at the corners and a central truss. Floor joists are flat laid, centre tenoned and the jetty is now underbuilt. A similar jettied block existed at the W end but is now replaced by a narrow C17 bay. The open hall retains the central truss with shallow chamfered arched braces bearing heavy saw marks. Hall frame has exterior arched bracing. All chamfered members have step stops. High end of hall retains arched bracing to tie-beam and middle rail and peg holes suggest site of original bench. In late C17 the hall was divided horizontally with slender deep section joists and and a fireplace was placed against service side of central truss with a dormer window to light the upper storey. Cross passage elements destroyed but site of front door marked by a discontinuity in the weatherboarding.

Listing NGR: TQ5623797325