Lady Margaret House

GISLINGHAM MILL STREET (NORTH SIDE), TM 07 SE LITTLE GREEN

2/54 Lady Margaret House - - II

House. Late C16, extended early C17, stack inserted later C17, altered C20. Timber frame, plastered. Steeply pitched machine tiled roofs. Appears as 3 cell lobby entry range but originally probably 5 storeyed bays with smoke bay to right, service and cross passage bays to left, parlour added to right with 2 bay kitchen/dairy wing to rear to form a T on plan. 2 storeys. Cross passage entrance blocked, to right a C20 lobby entrance between hall and parlour in a shallow porch; 1, 2 and 3-light leaded casements with hoodboards, some early glass, boxed eaves. Axial ridge stack inserted in smoke bay between hall and parlour. Right gable end exposed double purlins. Service wing extends behind former passage and hall, left return internal kitchen stack, entrance into dairy, mixed casements, C20 dormers, behind parlour a shallow addition with a door and hipped roof. Interior: close studding with chamfered mid-rails, hall has stop chamfered storey posts, axial binding beam and fireplace bressumer, parlour and service wing have stop chamfered cross axial binding beams. Queen post roof over original build, square-set plates/purlins between straight posts and collars, longitudinal reverse cranked braces, parlour and service wing roofs not inspected.

Listing NGR: TM0640771984