23, Shephall Green

TL 22 SE SHEPHALL GREEN

5/10000 No 23 II

House. Circa early to mid C17, extended later C17. Rendered timber frame. Pantile roof with gabled ends. Rendered brick axial and gable end stacks. Plan: 3-room plan lobby entrance house. The original early-mid C17 house comprised a hall with a gable end stack on left (N) and an unheated room to right (S). Later in C17 a parlour with a chamber above and a gable end stack was built at the left (N) end.'There is an outshut behind the parlour and a later outshut behind the hall and inner room. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window west front. Small 3-light casements on first floor and larger 4-light ground floor casements with glazing bars; ground floor right replaced by C20 French casement. Panelled and glazed door to left of centre with C20 open porch. Small outshut on left (N) end. At rear main roof is carried down as catslide over outshut on right. Lower pitched lean-to outshut on left. Interior: Exposed wall framing. Chamfered axial beams in hall and parlour with cyma stops. Hall and parlour have brick fireplaces with similarly chamfered and stopped timber lintel. The hall stack has crow-steps on back exposed in parlour chamber (originally outside). Exposed in chambers wall plate and tie-beams in timber frame partitions but apex of roof ceiled.

Listing NGR: TL2563922865