Corner Farm Cottage

TM 38 SE RUMBURGH THE STREET

2/15 Corner Farm Cottage -

GV II

House, previously divided into 2. C15. 2 storeys. 3-cell plan, originally with a 2-bay open hall. Timber-framed; encased in mid C19 red brick; a flint and brick lean-to at each end; clay pantiles. An internal chimney-stack with a plain red brick shaft. 3 3-light C20 casement windows to each floor, those on the ground floor with transomes. 2 plank doors. The partition at the lower end of the hall remains, with 2 fine service doorways, pointed, with a continuous moulding, each side cut from a single piece of timber. The service rooms are still divided into 2. The open truss of the hall, with traces of smoke-blackening, has a cambered tie-beam and long arched braces, all with hollow chamfer moulding. The moulded base of the crown-post is visible just below the present upper ceiling level, but the remainder of the roof is inaccessible. The inserted stack was placed over the position of the open hearth, and cut the hall in 2. The stack, with 2 back-to-back hearths, has open fireplaces with plain timber lintels. The upper bay of the hall, and the original storied upper end, were made into one to form a large C16 parlour with a fine inserted ceiling: ovolo-moulded joists, and a main beam with a complex shallow moulding on its soffit.

Listing NGR: TM3640081910