Hill And Coles Farmhouse

FLAMSTEAD LONDON ROAD TL 01 NE (North side) 2/38 Hill and Coles Farmhouse - - II

Farmhouse. Early C17 or earlier, false front with parapet and verandah early C19, alterations early C20. Timber frame roughcast with brick casing to W gable end and E bay. Steep old red tile roofs. A large L-shaped low 2-storeys house facing S with long lower rear service wing at NW. 3-windows S front with 5-bays timber verandah, central half- glazed flush-beaded door in middle, French doors to LH and tall window to RH. 4-lights:2-lights:3-lights flush casement windows to 1st floor now with small-pane steel casements. E bay carried down as catslide-roofed front outshut. Very large 4-flues chimney on rear wall at junction with NW wing. The E slope of the rear wing roof has been flattened and the wallhead raised to insert windows at 1st floor level. Rear outshut to main range with stair in tower with swept roof in angle of wings. Large ground floor to E of entrance hall has broad axial beam with hollow chamfer topped by a large roll-moulding. Drawing Room to W of entrance has exotic carved Javanese (?) fire surround, and wide flat cross-beam, chamfered with hollow stops. Jacobean oak arcaded overmantle re-used with scratch-moulded panelling in partition beside sink in S room of rear wing. Fluted pilasters between depressed round arches with cusped soffits, carved spandrels, and fluted impost pilasters. Jowled posts, clasped-purlin roofs, unjowled mid-bay post by stair.

Listing NGR: TL0893415563