The Farm House

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TL 40 NW EPPING UPLAND EPPING LONG GREEN (South-East side) The Farm House 3/64 II

Farmhouse, how house. Mid/late C16 with later Cl7 alterations. Restored 1988. Weatherboard over timber frame: left gable end has close studding, with angle bracing to tie beams; elsewhere, the cill plates, wall plates, main posts and trusses survive; C20 brick infill. Gabled old tile roof; brick ridge stack, with diagonally-set shaft. 3-unit plan: C17 house had open hall flanked by service bay to right and parlour to left. Aligned east-west with west bay to left. One storey and attic; 3-window range. Two C20 doors and C20 windows; large central dormer installed 1988. Interior: 3-bay collar-truss roof with clasped purlins and jowled posts with angle braces to tie beams; split oak common rafters to central and right-hand bays. Close-studded partition between these bays with downward-curved passing braces and doorway to front; wattle and daub infill to truss above. Right-end wall retains close studding between tie beam and middle rail. An unsually late example of an open hall house, which had its floor inserted in the late C17/early C17: jointing techniques support mid/late C16 date.

Listing NGR: TL4273905099