The Sorrel Horse Inn

BARHAM NORWICH ROAD TM 15 SW 3/13 The Sorrel Horse Inn - - II Public house, late C15 or early C16 with alterations of C17 and mid C19. A 3- cell open hall house with cross-passage entrance. 2 storeys and attics. Timber-framed and plastered. Plaintiled roof with a C19 gabled casement dormer. A C17 axial chimney of red brick; another at the left-hand gable was largely rebuilt in C18/C19. Mid C19 sashes, those at the ground floor having small panes and hinged panelled external shutters. A single storey C19 parapetted extension at the front has similar windows. C19 entrance doorway in the cross-passage position has a mid C20 battened oak door. The open hall was built in 2 unequal bays. Twin doorways with altered 4-centred arched heads led to che service rooms to left, which were later united. The open truss has a cambered tie-beam with evidence for large arch braces - these have gone but the supporting shaft for one of them is visible in the bar. The hall roof is smoke-blackened from the open hearth. A crown-post system remains over the parlour cell, but has been removed from the hall roof (if it existed). Arch-braced close-studwork and large unmoulded 1st floor joists are exposed at the ena cells. A chimney was inserted between the hall and parlour and an upper floor over the hall, in C17. A rear service wing and an outshut were added in C18 or C19.

Listing NGR: TM1254551467