Lime Tree Farmhouse

COTTON PARKER'S ROAD (off) TM 06 NE 2/22 Lime Tree Farmhouse 15.10.87

-- II Former farmhouse. C16, in 2 phases. C19 remodelling (said to be 1812). Timber framed and rendered; slated roof with fishscale bands. A 3-cell house with a 4th cell added to right. 2 storeys. 3 3-light and one 2-light windows to the upper floor, all casements with trefoil Gothic heads. 4 similar but larger windows to ground floor. 6-panel door, the top 4 panels raised and fielded, the lower 2 flush; rectangular moulded surround. Open timber pedimented porch with trelliswork sides and polygonal piers. Internal stack has rectangular base of Tudor red brick and 3 square white brick shafts, set diamondwise, with attached heads. External stack on left gable end. Interior. All timbering exposed: good studding, middle rail, long tension braces in one end wall. The ground floor ceilings have main beams with a wide chamfer, cut-off stops, and plain unchamfered joists, except in the room to the left of the stack, where the joists are chamfered and have broach stops. Housings for several original diamond-mullioned windows, including one of 4 lights to rear. Late C17 upper ceilings. C19 shallow-pitched roof, re-using some original rafters.

Listing NGR: TM0672066931