Trickers Green Farmhouse

COMBS JACKS LANE TM 05 NW

2/74 Trickers Green Farmhouse

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Former farmhouse. Circa 1500 with C16 and later alterations. One storey with. attics. 3-cell plan with cross-entry. Timber-framed and plastered. Thatched roof, hipped to right (formerly also half-hipped to left). Axial chimney, the shaft rebuilt mid C20 in red brick; a plastered C18/C19 end chimney to left. Mid C20 small-pane casements, those at upper storey with eyebrows at the eaves. Mid C20 panelled door in gabled porch at cross-entry position. Although the structure is typical for a better quality house of c.1500, the layout is exceptional: the open hall was of 3 bays when built, and would have been at least 9m long. (The left hand bay was demolished and rebuilt later in C16, in the form of a conventional storeyed service cell). A cross-entry has one 4-centred arched doorway, but this may also be an alteration. One of the open trusses remains, with cambered tiebeam and massive archbraces of 4- centred form. A 6-light hall window with diamond mullions is in the upper (right hand) bay. Good close studding with unusually long windbraces of both arch and tension form, smoke-encrusted roof of coupled rafter or crownpost form. At the "upper" end is a storeyed cell with massive floor joists and a diamond-mullioned window; the ground floor room was subdivided originally at this end, another rare feature in a medieval house. A wide lintelled open fireplace of pale buff brick was inserted into the hall in late C16, together with an upper floor.

Listing NGR: TM0372056542