Walnut Tree Farm House

MELLIS THE COMMON (SOUTH EAST TM 07 SE SIDE)

3/33 Walnut Tree Farm House

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House, latterly 3 dwellings. C16, extended, floor inserted and stack added in C17, altered and extended C19 and C20. Timber frame, plastered with some red brick casing. Steeply pitched pantiled roof. Originally probably a small 2 bay open hall with storeyed end bay, service bay added to form a 3 cell range. 1 storey and attic. Four 2-light C20 glazing bar casements, 2 C20 3-light gabled dormers. Rebuilt axial ridge stack at left or upper end of hall. Left end lean-to outshut with a round headed window to front, attic sash in gable end. Right gable end is C19 brick cased with C17 external brick stack with offsets, an arched recess behind stack with a restored 4-light diamond mullioned window opening above a projecting bracketed and segmental headed light. To rear an architraved 6 panelled door into service bay, a second architraved entrance to far right into parlour bay has a boarded door, 2 light C20 glazing bar casements, on first floor a restored 5-light diamond mullioned window at upper end of hall, three 3-light gabled dormers. Interior: hall has close studding with full height curved tension bracing, chamfered cross axial binding beam, service end runout chamfered binding beam, a 4-light diamond mullioned opening in parlour, first floor reverse curved bracing in original end walls, collars clasp purlins, some smoke blackening.

Listing NGR: TM0930074006