Gooserye Farmhouse

CREETING ST. MARY ST. MARY'S ROAD TM 05 NE 4/68 Gooserye Farmhouse (formerly listed as Houghton Park Farmhouse) 9-12-55

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Former farmhouse, late C15 or early C16 with alterations of mid C16. A complete example of a half-H plan open hall house. Hall range of one storey with attics; 2 storey cross-wings jettied at the front. Timber-framed and plastered; at the rear is some exposed close-studding. Concrete plaintiled roofs; a large gabled C19/C20 casement dormer in the hall range. An axial chimney and an external chimney to right, both of red brick. Early C20 casements of 3 lights with transomes. Central glazed C20 entrance porch; the inner doorway framed and boarded. Both hall and parlour cross-wing to left have complete crownpost roofs, the former is lightly smoke-blackened. The cambered arch-braced tie-beam at the centre of the hall has an octagonal crownpost with 4-way bracing and a moulded capital and base. The crownpost at the open truss of the parlour wing is similar but has only 2-way bracing. Good close-studding throughout. A fine upper floor was inserted into the hall in mid C16 with roll-moulded main beams. (c.f. Roydon Hall, Creeting St. Peter). A similar 1st floor is apparently a replacement of the original floor over the parlour. One original service room doorway survives with a 4-centred arched head. C17 fireplace in the hall; two more with arched heads in the right-hand wing.

Listing NGR: TM0913655184