Start Farmhouse

TL 525 082 MAGDALEN LAVER 5/23 Start Farmhouse

• II

Cottage, c.1500, extended in C18 and C20. Timber framed, plastered with frame exposed, roof thatched. 2 bays aligned approx. E-W, aspect S, with external chimney stack, C17, at E end. N extension at E end, C18, forming an L-plan. Lean-to extension in NW angle, roofed with handmade red clay pantiles. Weatherboarded shed to SE, roofed with red clay pantiles and Roman tiles. Single storey with attics. S elevation, plain boarded door, 2 C19 casement windows, one casement window in swept dormer roofed with red clay Roman tiles, C20. Roof half-hipped at W end only. Jowled posts. Curved tension bracing in end wall and arched bracing in side walls, trenched outside studs. Edge-halved and bridled scarfs in wallplates. Roof of crownpost construction, plastered to soffits of collars, central crownpost without braces. Originally the E bay was open to the roof. The W bay may have had a lodged floor, but both the present floors are C17 insertions, consisting of axial beams chamfered and stopped, with exposed joists supported on clamps. In N extension unjowled posts, clasped purlin roof. The walls were weatherboarded until the early C20.

Listing NGR: TL5254808192