Lambs Farmhouse

THORNHAM MAGNA THE STREET (WEST SIDE) TM 17 SW 3/80 Lamb's Farm House - GV II

House. Early C16, stack inserted early C17, extended early C19, altered C20. Timber frame, plastered. Half hipped thatched roof. Small 5 bay, 3 cell cross passage plan, altered to lobby entrance. Always 2 storeys throughout. Lobby entrance to left of centre with a boarded architraved door, C19 gabled trellissed porch with cusped bargeboarding, C19 and C20 3-light glazing bar casements, 2 lights to right or service bay. Traces of panelled pargetting with zigzag patterning survive. Axial ridge stack towards left inserted in parlour. To rear left a clay lump and pantiled lean-to addition. To rear right early C19 red brick and clay lump, pantiled 2 storey service addition with a door towards front, further 1 storey addition. Interior: close studding, hall has stop chamfered cross axial binding beam, chamfered mid- rail, restored 4-centred arched door heads to screens passage, a single 4- centred arched headed chamfered dorway to service end with trimmer joist for original stairs, 3 and 4-light diamond, square and rectangular mullioned window openings, chamfered 4 centred arched gauged brick fireplace to stack replacing original smoke hood, reduced parlour has a stop chamfered cross axial binding beam and storey posts. First floor: arched braces to open truss, reverse curved arched bracing in closed trusses and in walling, chamfered tie beams, always ceiled. Crown post roof, square posts with cranked arched braces to collar purlin, downward cranked braces to tie beams, a gap for original smoke hood.

Listing NGR: TM1035771094