Old Farmhouse

STOWUPLAND MILL STREET TM 05 NE

7/182 Old Farmhouse -

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Farmhouse, late C15 or c.1500. One storey and attics. A 3-cell open-hall house. Timber-framed and plastered. Thatched roof with prominent thatched gabled dormers, perhaps of C17 or C18; bargeboards with C19 turned finials. An axial chimney, the shaft rebuilt in C20 red brick; a C19 end chimney to right also with rebuilt shaft. C18 and C19 small-pane casements. C19 boarded entrance door; C20 thatched gabled open porch on posts. A quite complete example of an open-hall house; the 2-bay hall has a central open truss with arch braced cambered tiebeam (one brace missing). Rather widely-spaced but heavy studding. Service rooms have massive unchamfered floor joists. One of a pair of 4-centred arched service doorways remains (the rooms are united). Coupled-rafter roof; both ends were originally half-hipped. An axial chimney was inserted backing against the cross-entry (with altered lintelled fireplace) and an upper floor of chamfered joists was inserted in the hall in early C17.

Listing NGR: TM0657059174