Mendlesham House

MENDLESHAM OAK FARM ROAD TM 16 SW 5/58 Mendlesham House - -- II Former farmhouse. First half of C16. Later wing, perhaps C17, to rear. Timber framed and plastered, shallow-pitched concrete-pantiled roof. 3-cell form. 2 storeys. 3 windows, mid C20 casements with small panes. Internal stack has axial shaft of narrow brick. Later stack against left gable end. Mid C20 doorway at rear. Interior. A good quality 5-bay frame with heavy studding and tension bracing. Evidence for massive tie beam braces to open trusses over hall and parlour chambers, the tie beams and original roof lost. Hall and parlour ceilings have heavy cross beams, the joists concealed. The hall ceiling beams are knee-braced to buttress-shafted wallposts with moulded caps, an unusual feature. Blocked rear cross-entry doorway has wide 4-centred arch. Good intact service partition, the paired central doorways with moulded jambs and hollow-chamfered 4-centred arches; Front wall of parlour chamber has sill of former oriel window. An arched doorway at the rear on the upper floor may have led to a stair wing. Some evidence in parlour for an original timber flue. The present stack is a later insertion into the hall cell, with back-to-back open fireplaces on the ground floor. 2-bay rear wing, the upper floor supported by secondary timbers set in front of the wallposts. Formerly known as Hill Farmhouse.

Listing NGR: TM1104864609