Paris Farmhouse

HELMINGHAM PETTAUGH LANE, GOSBECK TM 15 NE 4/110 Paris Farmhouse

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Farmhouse, mid/late C16 with earlier core. 2 storeys. 3-cell plan. Timber framed and plastered. Pantiled roof with axial chimney of red brick. Mid C20 small-pane casements. C20 gabled pantiled entrance porch with half glazed door. Good quality mid C16 framing exposed internally: the early C16 (or possibly C15) open hall was adapted and the parlour cell was rebuilt. Arch windbraced close studding in the parlour cell. Fine first floor structure in hall and parlour, the joists each having intricate bar chamfer stops and sunk triangles at the soffit. A service room has square unchamfered joists. The hall has a pair of storey posts with the archbraces from the central truss of an open hall. This cell was ii storeys high until the walls were raised in C19 to give a uniform 2 storey roofline.

Listing NGR: TM1733557816