Reedhouse Farmhouse

ONEHOUSE LOWER ROAD TM 05 NW

2/154 Reedhouse Farmhouse - - II

Farmhouse, c.1500 with alterations of late C16, C19 and mid C20. A 3-cell open hall house. One storey and attics. Timber-framed and plastered. Thatched roof with 3 mid C20 eyebrow casement dormers. A late C16 or C17 axial chimney of red brick with C20 rebuilt shaft; a C19 gable chimney to left. Mid C20 casements and half-glazed panelled entrance door within a gabled porch on posts. A two-bay central open hall; the open truss has a heavy cranked tiebeam (arch braces removed) and a cross-quadrate crownpost with 4-way solid plank braces. Moderate smoke blackening. Widely spaced studwork. The lower bay of the hall is unusually short; it contains one rear cross entry doorway (damaged) with a 4-centred head. Evidence for a doorway into the parlour. In c.1570 a chimney with lintelled fireplace was placed in the cross-entry, and a 1st floor with good chamfered joists inserted in the hall, a 4- centred arched doorway by the hall fireplace is of this phase. A blocked late C17 window in the former end wall to left, and evidence for an original diamond mullioned window to right (both ends had half-hipped roofs). Extensions to left and rear of C19 and C20.

Listing NGR: TM0028659164