Princewood

TM 16 NW 3/77

THORNDON HALL ROAD Princewood

GV II

House. C16 with C17 parlour addition to right. Renovated and extended to rear c.1975. Timber framed and plastered, pantiled roof. 3-cell form. 1½ storeys. Mid C20 single-pane casement windows. Mid C20 boarded door. 2 raking dormers. Internal stack with shaft of C19 red brick. A C16 diamond- mullioned window (altered) is exposed in the left gable end and another in the rear wall; a third is visible internally. C16 section comprises hall and service cells: exposed irregular studding, full height in the side walls; reverse-curved braces passing through floor level. One-bay hall with substantial plain joists. Remains of cross-entry doorways and one service doorway, all square-headed. Tie beam above service partition has been cut and replaced by long irregular braces from each wallpost, meeting over a doorway in the centre; one of these braces has been partly removed. Side purlin roof, originally half-hipped at the service end. The stack is a C17 insertion, perhaps preceded by a timber flue. Plain studding at later end.

Listing NGR: TM1438968899