Doggetts

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TM 27 SW 8/107

STRADBROKE NEW STREET (off) Doggetts

II

Former farmhouse. A very complex house, with work mainly of C14-C16, together with later alterations. It comprises a long main range and, to the left, a smaller rear wing set corner-to-corner to it and linked by a later rear addition. Timber framed and plastered; the right gable end and left gable are weatherboarded. Pantiled roof. 2 storeys with attic to main range. Windows mainly small-paned 2-light casements of C19 date; one older mullioned window to first floor. 2 plank doors. Above the left doorway at first floor level is an oblong plaster panel bearing the date 1711 within a lunette with an enriched border. Heavy internal stack to right, the lower portion of the shaft original. In a corresponding position to the left is a C19 stack with small square shaft. Rear wing is cement-rendered with a shallow-pitched roof; standard casement windows and gable stack The C14 section comprises 2 bays towards the left end of the main range, where there is a simple splayed scarf joint in the wallplate. This section was raised over one metre in late C16/early C17. The adjoining end bay is a C16 or early C17 addition. The remainder of the range comprises hall and parlour cells. Most of the structure in the hall cell is concealed; the hall bridging beam seems to be a later insertion and may indicate that this part of the house also has a medieval core. The hall has a fine C15-C16 plank and muntin cross partition. Hall chimneybreast retains early spit rack. Hall chamber fireplace has late C16 panelled plaster surround with raised borders. Beyond the stack is a late C16 2-bay parlour addition. On the upper floor there is heavy studding, quite widely-spaced, and reverse-curved braces. Evidence for 2 diamond-mullioned side windows; a short distance below each of these is the lintol of a matching window, set just above floor level, presumably an error of construction. The parlour fireplace has remains of a Classical design painted on plaster and in the chamber above is an arched brick fireplace. This chamber has an arch- braced cambered tie beam carrying queen-posts; the original bracing to the arcade plates has goner Remainder of roof of clasped-purlin form, a later reconstruction using C16 rafters. Rear wing, perhaps of C15 date, has widely-spaced studding with later studs between; stack inserted c1600 and walls raised about one metre c1800; it was probably built as an attached kitchen or service wing. "Doggetts" has been little altered since C17 and there are some C17 plank doors, old plaster and brick floors.

Listing NGR: TM2257774072