Malting Farm House

THRANDESTON GREAT GREEN (SOUTH EAST TM 17 NW SIDE) 2/118 - Malting Farm House 24.6.86 -- II

House. Late C16, part rebuilt mid C17, altered C19. Timber frame, plastered. Thatched roof. A broad 2 cell lobby entry plan with earlier parlour section to right. 2 storeys and attic. Central entrance in a C19 gabled porch, boarded door, hood mould, bargeboards. Flanking transomed 3-light casements, first floor 3-lights, all with leaded panes, hood moulds. Central ridge stack enlarged with rebuilding to left, rebuilt cap. Right gable end similar casements with a triangulated, bargeboarded head to first floor window, exposed plates and purlins. Left gable end entrance, exposed purlins. To rear left a C19 pantiled lean-to outshut, to right a boarded door. Attached to front left a clay lump and pantiled low outbuilding. Interior: parlour has stop chamfered cross axial binding beams and roll moulded joists, reset C18 screen with fielded panels and cornice, hall has a chamfered binding beam, over fireplace 2 C17 terracotta medallions of boars with coronets. First floor: an early 4-light chamfered mullioned opening, cambered tie beams to double purlin roof, lower butt purlins clasped by collars. Partly moated site.

Listing NGR: TM1288276267