Teazles

Teazles is a house located on Dedham Road in Stratford St Mary, originally listed as two cottages near Woodhouse Farm. This building dates from the late 16th century and features a timber-framed structure with a rendered finish. It has a plain tile roof and red brick stacks. The house is designed in an L-plan over two stories.

The front facing the road includes a gabled cross wing to the left, which has an extension under a catslide roof, where a former external stack rises. There is a 16-pane sash window on the ground floor to the left, while the rest of the windows are 20th-century casements. The right bay has a gable and an off-centre ridge stack.

On the garden side, the hall range features a gabled stair tower that connects to the projecting cross wing via a 20th-century glazed porch. The hall range has casement windows, except for one mullion window below the eaves at the centre, which contains 18th-century glazing. The cross wing has casements flanked by restored ovolo mullion side lights. The first floor has a jetty that is underbuilt, and the gable is also jettied.

Inside, the hall range showcases chamfered beams and exposed joists with tongue stops. There is a partly rebuilt inglenook fireplace with a chamfered bressumer and a newel stair leading to the tower. The cross wing features a partly rebuilt inglenook with a replaced bressumer, chamfered beams, and exposed joists. The first floor includes jowled posts, wall plates, and studded walls that are exposed, along with mortices for several diamond mullion windows and several wide oak floorboards. The cross wing also has a small section of hand-painted plaster in blue on white. The roof is constructed with clasped purlins and windbraces.