Marden'S Farmhouse

GREAT OAKLEY STONES GREEN ROAD TM 12 NE (south side) 3/42 Marden's Farmhouse

• II

House. Late C16, altered in C18 and C19. Timber framed, mainly clad with red brick in Flemish bond, partly weatherboarded, roofed with asbestos tiles. 4 bays facing S, with axial stack in second bay from left end, forming a lobby-entrance, and external stack at right end, now enclosed by C18/C19 service range to right of one storey with attics, with end stack. Single-storey lean-to extension to rear. 2 storeys. Ground floor, 3 mid-C19 tripartite sashes of 2-4-2 lights. First floor, 3 mid-C19 sashes of 6 lights, and blocked aperture over door. 6-panel flush door, the top 2 panels glazed, early C19, at front of gabled porch. The brick cladding is C19, with a straight joint behind the porch, and a plain string course to left of it. The rear elevation is weatherboarded. The interior has chamfered transverse and axial beams, and plain joists of horizontal section, all with lamb's tongue stops. 2 wide wood-burning hearths, blocked and re-faced. The walls have been raised approx. one metre in the C18 or early C19. Early C19 quarter-turn staircase to rear of axial stack, with hardwood rail and stick balusters. The difference in the brick cladding, and the greater ceiling height in the left bay, implies that this was raised and clad before the remainder, but both within the first half of the C19. Good brick floor in service range. C18/early C19 hinges on internal doors. One mid-C19 half-glazed door with handmade glass.

Listing NGR: TM1816826796