Ravenys

TM 0534 STRATFORD ST MARY DEDHAM ROAD (east side) 5/20 - Ravenys (formerly listed 22.2.55 as Byways) II Raveners on O.S. map. House. Late C15-C16 with C20 alterations. Timber-framed, rendered except garden front of cross wing with red brick nogging. Brick under- building to road front. Plain tile roof. Red brick stacks. 2 storeys, L-plan, originally jettied to street. Present entrance to gable end of main range, C20 porch. Garden front: C20 single-storey range under tiled roof extends main range out to level of projecting cross wing. C20 plank doors with Tudor arches and restored mullion windows with leaded lights. Off-centre saw-tooth stack to left. Swept roof. Cross wing: framing exposed, jowled posts with studding and down braces. Restored ovolo mullion windows. Rendered gable with bargeboards. Large external stack to return wall with saw-tooth stack. Road front was originally jettied, now underbuilt in painted brick. Further restored mullion windows and bargeboards to gable of cross wing. Interior: studded walls. Chamfered beams and exposed joists. Cross wing 1st floor diamond mortices and shutter grooves of original windows. Collar rafter roof to main range with slight smoke blackening. Clasped purlin roof with windbraces to cross wing. In 1442 the land on which the house stands was granted to William Smyth and William Wade on condition they rebuilt the house (Griffin). Two drawings of the house by John Constable are in the Victoria & Albert Museum 'A Country Road, Cottage and Figures' and 'Water Lane, Stratford St Mary', both of 1827.

Griffin, J H H (Rector), The Village of Stratford St Mary and its church. 1964 pp.1-2. (Unpublished guidebook.)

Listing NGR: TM0554634407