4, 6 And 8, Dallinghoo Road

Three houses, located at 4, 6, and 8 Dallinghoo Road, Wickham Market, date to the 15th and early 16th centuries, with later alterations. They are timber-framed and rendered, with the left gable end faced in flint and featuring a weathered gable. The roofs are pantiled, supported by two red brick ridge stacks and a gault brick stack at the rear. The houses originally comprised a three-unit open hall house, with No. 8 being an in-line addition set at a slight angle to create a long range. The buildings are two storeys high with an attic to No. 8. They feature a six-window front, with mainly 20th-century 1-, 2-, and 3-light casements. The ground floor has five similar casements, a boarded and battened door to No. 4, a mid-20th-century panelled door to No. 6, and a boarded door to No. 8. Rear casements are visible, including a gable to No. 8 that indicates the former position of a wing, now replaced by a 20th-century extension.

The interior of Nos. 4 and 6 reveals good 15th-century timber framing, with heavy studding, reverse-curved braces, a moulded and embattled dais beam, and evidence of former hall windows with square or oblong mullions. A largely intact, sooted roof above the hall retains an octagonal crown-post with a moulded base and cap, along with 4-way bracing at the head. A 17th-century floor was inserted into the hall, and was altered in the 19th century. The service end, to the left, was largely rebuilt in the 20th century. No. 8 is in four bays and displays some exposed framing suggesting earlier diamond-mullion windows. A unique feature is a knee-braced bridging beam with ogee mouldings, descending down the wall posts and intersecting with an axial beam of pine, 5.5 metres long and running through three bays. The stack is a later insertion, backing onto the 15th-century range, with a ground floor fireplace featuring a moulded bressummer above a narrowed opening. Two open roof trusses are present, each bearing an arched-braced tie beam supporting a square, unmoulded crown post with 2-way bracing to the collar purlin.