4 And 5, Clay End

TL 32 SW WALKERN CLAY END (south side)

4/6 Nos 4, and 5

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House, now 2 houses. C16 or earlier open hall house, renovated as 2 houses in Gothick style in mid C19. Timber frame roughcast with steep hipped roof with gablets, of old red tiles. 2- storeys, 4-windows long, facing W, with No 4 on S occupying lower bay of hall and service end. Wide C19 Tudor arched doorway with battened door into each half. 3-light cast iron flush lattice casement windows. Similar windows in half-octagonal bay window to left of door to No 5, and shallow rectangular hipped bay window, to No 4. External rear chimney with 2 tall octagonal shafts, similar pair to central chimney built in upper bay of hall, and large 3-shaft external chinmney at N end. Visible parts of chimneys rebuilt in grey brick in mid Cl9. Interior has heavy jowled posts, very heavy cambered tie-beams, chamfered with hollow stops, close-studding in rear wall, chamfered joists in floor inserted in hall, straight tension braces in close studded partition at lower end of hall, and an edge-halved scarf joint with bridled butts in hall wallplate. Clasped-purlin roof with curved wind-braces exposed in upper chambers. Possibly the rectory house replaced by one in the High Street in 1632 (q.v.).

Listing NGR: TL3046924988