Meadow Farmhouse

UGGESHALL TM 48 SE 4/62 Meadow Farmhouse

• II

House. A complex of building of at least 3 dates: C16 core, early C17 parlour addition to left and a lower early C18 range to the right; restored from 3 farm cottages in the 1970's. Timber framed and plastered, the left hand gable end rebuilt in red brick; some colourwashed brick to rear. Pantiled roof. 2 storeys with attic above the parlour. Various mid C20 casement windows; mid C20 6-panel door, cornice on imported enriched console brackets. Each range has an internal stack; the left hand stack, which has been rebuilt, incorporates a stone tablet carved with 2 blank shields enclosed by vine leaf ornament. The timber frame is exposed internally although there has been much later alteration and rebuilding. The parlour has a floorbeam with shallow double-curve moulding and enriched stop-chamfers with bar; there are also remains of a moulded cornice. The room over the parlour has good timbering with cranked arched corner-bracing and evidence of 2 original windows. The room adjoining the parlour has heavy unchamfered joists and a main beam with broach stop-chamfers, probably C16; this ceiling appears to be inserted. There is evidence that this section of the house has been raised c.0.4m; in the original part a small 3-light diamond-mullioned window has been exposed.

Listing NGR: TM4516481352