Loom'S Farmhouse

The following building shall be added: BURGH LOOM'S FARMHOUSE TM 25 SW 2/146 II Farmhouse. Circa early C17, extended and front wall partly rebuilt in late C19. Plastered timber-framed, stamped herringbone pattern pargetted panels and wavey bargeboards on south gable end and evidence of pargetting at rear; front wall partly rebuilt in brick. Pantile roof with gabled ends. Brick axial and gable-end stacks.

3-room plan. Hall and parlour on right (south) heated from back-to-back fireplaces in axial stack, the left (north) service room may have been unheated originally, but in late C19 it was extended northwards by a bay with a large gable end fireplace and the front wall was partly rebuilt. The outshut behind the service end is probably also C19.

1 storey and attic. Asymmetrical 3-window front. 2-light casements with glazing bars, ground floor in segmental arch openings, attic in gabled dormers, left hand with remains of bargeboards. Doorway to the left of centre with panelled door. Short extension on left with lower roof, large brick stack on gable end and one casement. At rear two 2-light casements with glazing bars and lean-to outshut on right.

Interior: Timber-framing exposed. Parlour and hall have back-to-back fireplaces with timber lintels, parlour chamfered with runout stops, both with C19 fireplaces inserted. Parlour has chamfered axial beam with runout stops and chamfered joists. Hall has chamfered cross-beam without stops and chamfered joists. Service room to north has chamfered cross- beam with hollow step stops and chamfered wide joists, later partition inserted and end wall removed for kitchen extension which has fireplace with range and flanking boiler. C19 stairs inserted in service end. Service end chamber has small diamond-mullion window in original north gable end. Wall plates, jowled posts and stud exposed in chambers, but roof ceiled. Existing clasped purlin roof may not be the original.

Note: Loom's Farmhouse is on a moated site.

Listing NGR: TM2443352646