Farmhouse At Cromer Farm

TL 2928 ARDELEY CROMER (east side)

6/10 Farmhouse at Cromer Farm

19.10.51 (formerly listed as Cromer Farmhouse)

GV II*

House. Circa 1500 open hall house with 2 jettied cross-wings, central chimney and floor over hall inserted in late C16 or early Cl7, S wing enlarged to E in C17, NE wing C20. Timber frame roughcast but framing exposed outside on front of ground floor of crosswings, and upper floor of S wing. Steep old red tile roofs. An H-plan house of 2 storeys facing W. One and a half storeys hall range in middle has a galbed dormer at the eaves and a large central chimney near the S end backing onto the cross- passage. Jettied upper floors of crosswings carried on bull- nose joists and knee braces. Tension braces to upper floor of S wing. 3-windows to each floor. Flush leaded C18 lattice casements. Single hexagonal shaft to central chimney. Later external chimney on N side of N (parlour) wing with diagonal square shafts (rebuilt). Timbers exposed inside, with close studding curved tension braces, heavy square-section joists, moulded axial beam and chamfered and stopped joists in the hall, 4-centred arched rear doorway, former exterior framing of house exposed in extension, traces of large hall window and shutter recesses, hollow chamfered posts and braces of central hall truss, and smoke-blackened clasped-purlin roof (constructed without end trusses). At S, service wing axially divided. Crow-stepped decoration to upper part of hall chimney stack. (RCHM (1911) 38: VCH (1912) 194: Pevsner (1977) 72: RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL2970228225