Haywards

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TL 9762 5/143

WOOLPIT THE STREET Hill House

(formerly listed as Haywards GREEN HILL, previously listed as Hill House)

15.11.54

GV II

Shop and offices built as a house in late C14 with alterations of early C19. Two storeys, four windows. A three-cell open hall house. Timber-framed, encased in early C19 gault brick. Concrete plaintiled roof with three rear chimneys of red brick. Early C19 windows with flat arches of gauged brick and small-pane sashes. C19 entrance doorway at cross-entry position: six-panelled door and blind semi-circular fanlight with gauged brick head.

Interior: Complete C14 roof structure: a slightly-cambered tiebeam, octagonal crownpost with moulded capital and base and thick four-way braces. Heavy smoke-blackening. Close-studding exposed at first storey: an early example. Long splayed and tabled scarf joints with undersquinted butts. A two-centred arched doorway found during alterations, now concealed or missing: no framing visible at ground storey.

Listing NGR: TL9739662371