Roe End Farmhouse

MARKYATE ROE END LANE TL 01 NW (North side) 1/186 Roe End Farmhouse -

GV II

Farmhouse. Late C16, C17 E crosswing and gabled rear extension, C19 front and rear outshut, 1880 brick rear extension to crosswing and large E parlour block, C20 glazed porch. Timber frame, red brick casing, plum brick E block and rear extension to E crosswing. Steep old red tile roofs, hipped E block. A 2-storeys, 3-unit, lobby-entry plan house facing S, with large internal chimney next gabled, taller E crosswing projecting to front, and gabled rear service wing behind chimney. C19 rear outshut, 2-storeys gabled rear extension to crosswing with higher ceiling heights, and tall 2-storeys E block at higher level on E end. S font irregular, brick front to older W part has 2 windows on each floor, 3-light flush casements with small panes and cambered arches to ground floor. Very large square chimney. Glazed single-storey porch to former lobby entry. Higher gabled crosswing with recessed sash window with 3/3 panes on 1st floor. Porch extends across front. Higher hipped E block in plum brick has large external projecting chimney in middle of S side flanked by gabled 1st floor windows with narrow recessed sash windows with 2/2 panes in raised red brick surrounds. Brick labels to 2 tall narrow sash windows on ground floor. Large canted bay on E end of this block with sash window of 3/3 panes on 1st floor. Interior has exposed framework of rear wall exposed for full height, jowled posts, mortices for braces to tie-beams, clasped-purlin roof on collar-and-queen-strut trusses with straight wind-braces. Heavy straight braces in wall. Squint-butted scarf joint in wallplate. Remains of wall painting on faces of beams across each end of former middle room on W of chimney, with cellar under. White foliate design on reddish ground. Axial chamfered beams with hollow stops. Panelled C18 corner cupboard against stub of cross partition on W repeated by cut sill-plate and holes for wattle and daub infill between mortices for studs. Undivided W end room suggests this was originally the upper-end and that the C17 E crosswing replaced the original service-bay. Very high room on ground floor of E block with bedroom over partly in roof. Fireplace with corner blocks and paterae in office to rear of E crosswing. Dairy in ground floor of C17 rear extension.

Listing NGR: TL0474815793