The Lawn

TL 97 SE 2/86

WALSHAM LE WILLOWS WEST STREET The Lawn

GV II

House. Mainly C18 and C19, with an early C17 core. Timber-framed and rendered front, formerly with applied mock-timbering; facing and extensions in early C19 white brick to rear; plaintiles. 2 storeys and attics; complex form, with 2 wings of different dates projecting from the front, both with pierced and fluted barge-boards and spike finials; the left wing is a cross- wing projecting also to the rear; it has an overhanging tie-beam supported by brackets on the front. An external stack of old red brick on the left gable has 2 high barrel shafts moulded at cap and base; a similar stack on the right gable has 4 barrel shafts with moulded caps and bases. Beyond it, a 2-storey C19 extension with coloured brick on the ground floor and render above; panels of pargetting on the gable end; black glazed pantiles. The main range between the wings is high, and may have been raised, but all framing is concealed inside. Old casement windows to front, most 3-light with transomes and horizontal glazing-bars; some 2-light. An enclosed gabled porch with entrance door has pierced and fluted bargeboards and finial matching the gables. Garden front with 2 wide full-height canted bays with conical roofs and 3 sash windows to each storey, 6-pane above, 12-pane below. To the left, a wide rectangular flat-roofed bay has deep small-paned sash windows and glazed French doors with a traceried oblong fanlight: 2 6-pane sash windows above, and another over the entrance door between the bays: half-glazed recessed door with fanlight and timber surround in semi-circular arched opening. Most of interior reflects the early C19 phase of the house, but the left cross-wing has a C17 core: one ground floor room has an ovolo-moulded main beam with scroll stops. C18 roof over the main range: 2 rows of stepped butt purlins, rafters on edge, ridge-piece with applied saddles.

Listing NGR: TL9906771143