Sadleirs End

TL 1724 & TL 1824 8/78 & 9/78

PRESTON CHEQUERS LANE (East side) Sadleirs End

GV II

House. Early C16, inserted chimney and floor C17; brick casing and large W gable chimney with oven, dated '1719' on plaster panel in recess over door; W chimney-top removed and gabled NW rear extension c.1970. Timber frame on flint sill, red brick for infill panels, Flemish-bond casing to front and W end, and rear extensions. Steep old red tile roofs. A 2-storeys, 3 windows long house facing S with recessed panels over door a third from W end into lobby-entry by large internal stack formerly with a winding stair to rear of it. S front has a chamfered plinth, plat-band and box eaves. Plat-band carried across W gable at eaves level. 3 2-lights flush Yorkshire sliding casements to 1st floor with small panes. 2-lights flush casements to ground floor, with French doors to right of 6-panels fielded door with flat moulded hood on shaped brackets. Built as a 3-bays framed structure with heavy jowled posts, curved tension braces notched across the backs of the, studs so as not to show on the exterior, clasped-purlin roof with straight wind-braces. Inserted floor to middle bay on chamfered axial beam with stops and chamfers to joists and fireplace lintel matching (ogee). Plain squared joists on axial beams to end bays look later. The C17 chimney was built in the E side of the W bay, and the much larger fireplace and oven added to the former W gable in 1719 occupies the whole depth of the house.

Listing NGR: TL1799824890