Guinea Wiggs

TL 93 SW 922/14/10040

NAYLAND WITH WISSINGTON Guinea Wiggs

II

House. c1615, extended and altered 1987. Plastered and whitewashed timber frame; thatched roof. Lobby-entrance plan. EXTERIOR: one storey and dormer attic; 4-window range to south front. Close-studded frame with jowled corner studs on brick plinth. South front with doorway left of centre, flanked by one 2-light casement to left and 3 to right. All windows and dormers of 1987. One central dormer under eyebrow thatch. Ridge stack over doorway. The 5 studs to east of elevation mark extension of 1987. West return with timber-framed lean-to outshut under plain tiled roof. Main wall with one French window and one twin-light casement to left. 2-light first-floor casement. Gable head with cambered collar and protruding ends of clasped purlins set within undiminished principals. North elevation with 2 2-light and one single-light casement and a lean-to porch, above which are 2 eyebrow dormers fitted with 2-light casements. INTERIOR: south door opens into stack lobby with winder staircase backing onto the stack. West room on ground floor with chamfered spine beam and wide inglenook fireplace of rebuilt brick under a chamfered bressumer. Main room east of stack also with a chamfered bridging beam and inglenook fireplace. Stick baluster staircase balcony at first floor. Internal corridor on south side. Roof of undiminished principals clasping one tier of purlins with cambered collars.

Listing NGR: TL9416434981