Sheldrakes

TL 51 NE GREAT CANFIELD GREEN STREET

2/16 SHELDRAKES

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Small hall house, C15, altered in C16 and C17, extended in C20. Timber- framed, plastered, roof thatched. 4 bays originally comprising storeyed service bay at NW, 2-bay open hall storeyed parlour/solar bay at SE. Axial chimney stack inserted at NW end of hall and floor inserted, late C16. SW dormer inserted in early C17. Lean-to extension at NW end C19, single storey extension with attic to N, C20. Single storey with attics. Ground floor, C20 casement windows, C20 gabled brick and tiled porch, one C17 3-light window with wrought-iron casement, and another in gabled dormer. Roof half-hipped at both ends. Timber frame exposed internally. Jowled storey posts. Curved tension bracing trenched outside studs. Interrupted tiebeam construction at both ends with mortices for diamond mullions. Transom of original unglazed hall window present in NE wall, with mortices for diamond mullions in it and the wallplate above. Roof of crownpost construction, but the central tiebeam, crownpost and all the arch braces to the collar-purlin are missing. C16 floorboards above hall. Stop-chamfered ceiling beams. 4 C17 wrought iron casement windows with leaded glass, some of it early. C20 dormer in NE pitch of roof.

Listing NGR: TL5775818870