Lilac House

TL 96 SE ELMSWELL NEW ROAD

5/32 Lilac House -

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House, early C17 with fragmentary medieval core. 2 storeys and attics. 3- cell lobby-entrance plan. Timber-framed and roughcast: the parlour block to right has an oversailing gable tiebeam with delicately carved console brackets beneath. Concrete plaintiled roof. An axial early C17 chimney of red brick: sawtooth shaft and plinth with ovolo-moulded cornice. 3-light C19 casements at 1st storey and small-pane sashes with sidelights below. Mid C19 4-panelled. entrance door, the upper panels glazed. Interior: The C17 parlour block to right was added to an earlier building of which only the walling remains: this shows smoke-blackening and appears to have comprised an open hall of C15 or early C16 which must have had additional cells at left or right, or both: heavy arch-windbraced studding. The walls were raised and a floor inserted with good chamfered joists in late C16 or c.1600. C17 windbraced clasped- purlin roof throughout. A large lean-to outshut of late C18 or early C19 to rear.

Listing NGR: TL9900163680