Wassicks Farmhouse

TM 06 SW 4/93

HAUGHLEY NEW BELLS ROAD, HAUGHLEY GREEN Wassicks Farmhouse

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Former farmhouse, late C15 with late C16 alterations. A 3-cell open hall house. One storey and attics. Timber-framed and plastered. Glazed pantiled roof, once thatched. One gabled casement dormer. Axial chimney of mid C20 common brick. Mid C20 small-pane casements; the original window of the open hall with 6 lights of diamond mullions is exposed and glazed at the upper level and another similar C16 window is also glazed. Boarded entrance door at cross-entry position, with 4-centred arched head of original doorway; open C20 gabled porch on posts. The 2-bay open hall has smoke-blackening. An open truss with cambered tie-beam and one archbrace. Two 4-centred arch service doorways; studding widely-spaced with long tension-braces. Coupled rafter roof. At the service end to left, a deep jetty at the gable-end is a C16 introduction. At the right hand end are back-to-back lintelled open fireplaces, placed in the parlour cell; this end was extended in mid/late C16 with close-studding. All 3 cells have C16 first floors with unchamfered joists. A wing to rear right is of late C16 origin, with major remodelling mainly in C20.

Listing NGR: TM0395164110