Gay House

GREAT OAKLEY PESTHOUSE LANE TM 1827-1927 (north-west side) 7/34 20.1.86 Gay House

II House. C17, extended in C20. Timber framed, roughcast rendered, roofed with red clay pantiles. 4 bays facing SE with axial stack in second bay from left end. C18/19 extension to right. C20 single-storey lean-to extension to rear. Large C20 2-storey crosswing to left. One storey with attics. Ground floor, 6 C20 casements. First floor, one more, and 3 in slated lean-to dormers. C20 half-glazed door at front of gabled porch. Jowled posts. Primary straight bracing. Chamfered axial and transverse beams with lamb's tongue stops, plain joists of vertical section. 2 large wood-burning hearths. Roof ceiled. In the C20 left extension is a re-used C16 floor structure, with a chamfered axial beam and joists of horizontal section jointed to it with soffit tenons with diminished haunches, reported to have come from an agricultural building c.1965, and other re-used timber. Shown under the same name in the tithe award of 1841, without farm buildings, as part of Maltings Farm, 58 acres. Essex Record Office, D/CT 158)

Listing NGR: TM1957127300