Pond Farmhouse

TM 26 NW 5/117

WORLINGWORTH FINGAL STREET Pond Farmhouse

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Farmhouse. Early C17; brick casing has datestone 'SP 1873' on left gable end. Timber framed, the facade encased and the left gable end rebuilt in white brick; right gable end brick-cased and rendered; plastered at rear. Pantiled roof. 2 storeys and attic. 3-cell, lobby entry type. 3 windows, mid C20 standard casements; replacement lintols of timber. Gabled porch of 1873 with mid C20 door. Internal stack, the lower half of the shaft original. C19 stack on outside of right gable end. Much of the frame is intact: reverse- curved braces; evidence for diamond-mullioned windows on both floors and in one gable. Axial bridging beams to all 3 ground floor rooms; chamfered joists in the hall, otherwise plain joists. No evidence of original first floor partitioning above hall and service end. Roof has clasped and stepped butt purlins with cranked wind braces. One collar is supported by a central post from the tie beam and there is evidence for one to another collar, now removed: this strengthening work is of C17 date. Newel stairs, the lower flight rebuilt in C19.

Listing NGR: TM2171369374