Chestnut Tree Farmhouse

SOUTH ELMHAM ST. CROSS FLIXTON ROAD TM 38 SW

4/51 Chestnut Tree Farmhouse (formerly listed as Chestnut 1.9.53 Farmhouse) - II

Farmhouse. Early C17. 2 storeys and attics: L-shaped form. Timber-framed and rendered, south gable in painted brick: re-roofed with concrete plaintiles in 1984. The north-south range has an internal chimney stack: 2 attached square shafts with corbelled heads set diagonally on a square base; there are 8 small projections from the base of, and between, the shafts, possibly of formalised horses' heads. Various old casement windows, 3-light and 4-light, those on the ground floor with transomes and square leading to the top panes; pintle hinges. The east-west range has an internal chimney-stack with a plain square shaft; C20 replacement windows; a slatted, unglazed window to the cheese room in the east gable. Various plank doors. The 2 ranges appear to be contemporary or near-contemporary, that aligned north-south in 6 bays, including a chimney-bay, containing the main living area. On the ground floor, only the main beams and a surrounding cornice are exposed, both with very large ovolo mouldings. Long shallow jowls to the main posts; arched braces to the tie-beams still in situ; original upper ceilings with chamfer and stepped stops to the timbers; face-halved and bridled scarfs in the wallplates. Roof in 9 bays: 2 rows of unstepped butt purlins, heavy cambered collars to trusses and intermediate collars between, windbraces, sloping inwards only, have been removed. The east-west range has good studding and reversed bracing exposed on the upper floor; roof mainly concealed above upper ceilings, but with 2 rows of butt purlins, and apparently similar to the other range. A newel stair by the stack in each range.

Listing NGR: TM3014684943