Painter'S Farmhouse

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL54SE BUTLERS LANE 669-1/6/45 Painter's Farmhouse 01/11/72 (Formerly Listed as: ASHDON ROAD Painters Farmhouse)

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House. C17, C18 with C20 additions. Timber-framed, rendered on brick plinth with C20 pargetted decoration, peg-tiled roof. L shaped plan. One and a half and 2 storeys. Original E-W range with N-S C18 addition at W end, then, 1964-5 raising and expansion of C18 unit in internal angle on E side which now contains the front door. All windows C20 casements with rectangular leaded panes. S garden elevation: original frontage. One and half storeys, 3 window range, two 4-light and one 3-light window. Roof half-hipped at both ends, tall central stack, 2-light gabled dormer window immediately to E. W end elevation: 2-storeys, original sweep of roof of old house to S continued to N and hipped. External stack near E end, reduced at eaves and rebuilt. Ground floor has C20 2-leaf stable door at N end with bracketed flat hood, 3-light window at S end. First floor, two 2-light and one 3-light window. N end elevation: 2 storeyed hip roofed block with catslide roof to N of C20 addition. 2 ground floor 3-light windows. Behind, to E, N wall of original block blank. E elevation: now front. Original one and a half storey, half hipped gable end to S with principal original framing exposed but also has inserted sham studding between middle rail and tie-beam. Ground floor 4-light window, upper 3-light window over tie-beam. To N all C20 work. Ground floor principal doorway, door boarded with Tudor arched head and battens. 3-light window adjacent each side, to N 1 single-light window. Above, flat roofed 4-light dormer window through catslide roof. INTERIOR: much altered but E fireplace of old stack, with jambs rebuilt, has original oak mantel beam. W fireplace reconstructed. Axial floor joists E and W from stack are original. Upper floor in C18 addition shows wall plates of that period for one and a half storeys, now raised to full 2 storeys. RCHM Mon.133 records C18 work as 1752.

Listing NGR: TL5636340031