Street Farmhouse

THORNDON HIGH STREET TM 16 NW 3/94 Street Farmhouse - II Former farmhouse. Mainly early C15 and C16. Timber framed and plastered, thatched roof. 1½ storeys and attic. 3-cell form with former open hall. Various casement windows. 2 diamond-mullioned windows to right, that to the ground floor with replacement mullions. A small ground floor canted bay with mid C20 windows. C19 doorway, the architrave with panelled jambs and a pedimented cornice; 4-panel door. 3 gabled dormers. Internal stack with square rendered shaft. Internally, much of the C15 framing is concealed. In the front wall is an original cross-entry doorway with 2-centred arch. Open truss has cambered tie beam with intact but concealed braces. Octagonal crown-post with moulded cap and 4-way almost straight braces; base of post concealed. Intact coupled rafters and collar purlin, all heavily sooted. Remainder seems substantially C16. Parlour has bridging beam and closely- spaced joists, all with a single cavetto mould. Intact open fireplace. End wall of parlour has remains of a C16-C17 painting on plaster showing a figure carrying a sword and staff in red with black lining. In the chamber above, a pair of inserted upper crucks supports an attic floor above eaves level. C16 inserted hall ceiling has axial bridging beam with broach stop-chamfers, the joists concealed. A plank and muntin screen against the cross-passage may be contemporary. Stack inserted against outside of upper end wall of hall. The house has been extended about 3m beyond the end of the parlour, perhaps in C18.

Listing NGR: TM1421669417