Ward Green Farmhouse

OLD NEWTON WARD GREEN TM 06 SE WITH DAGWORTH

5/158 Ward Green Farmhouse 09/12/55 (formerly listed as Ward Green Farmhouse and barn) GV II*

Farmhouse, C15 and C17; built in two sections: a 2-storey, 2-cell early C17 block to right, linked to a 3-cell open hall house of early C15 set forward at right angles to left. C17 block: timber-framed and plastered. Plaintiled roof with axial C17 chimney of buff brick with sawtooth shaft. 2 windows: at ground storey a pair of early C19 small-pane sashes, at 1st storey a pair of early C18 3-light windows with transomes and wrought iron casements at the centre. A mid C20 small-pane casement marks the position of the former cross- entry doorway to left with cantilevered plaintiled pentice. The lower range has a pantiled roof, formerly thatched, with axial C17 chimney of buff brick. The earlier range has a 2-bay open hall. The open truss at the centre consisted of an arch-braced cambered tiebeam until late C16 or early C17, when the tiebeam was cut almost away, and long cruck-like timbers attached to the storey posts. These appear to be the remodelled original archbraces reused: they support a collar-beam at the head. Studwork good but widely spaced; a 2- centred arched parlour doorway. Heavy unchamfered floor joists at both end cells. Quite complete coupled-rafter roof, formerly hipped. A large original wattle-and-daub baffle laid upon oak planks over the collars is a device for smoke extraction at the upper end of the hall: a rare survival. Chimney with lintelled open fireplace inserted in cross-entry c.1600, with inserted upper floor in hall. The later block has a complete plank-and-muntin cross-passage screen. High quality framing for date: close-studding, with (it is believed) a large concealed ovolo moulded mullioned and transomed chamber window. Closely spaced on-edge floor joists. Back-to back open fireplaces. Fragments of a C17 moulded plasterwork scheme in a chamber.

Listing NGR: TM0501564018