Riding Farmhouse

TM 07 SW WALSHAM LE WILLOWS CROWNLAND ROAD

3/44 Riding Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. Early C17 front range; older fragments in reconstructed rear wing. Timber-framed and rendered; plaintiles. 2 storeys and attics; 2-cell internal chimney plan, now with lobby entrance. The internal chimney-stack has 3 octagonal shafts, attached at the heads, on a rectangular base with a recessed panel which no longer carries a date. Plain bargeboards and spike finials to the gables. 2 3-light windows to the upper floor, and one central 2-light, all old casements with plain glass; 3 3-light casements with transomes to the ground floor, one to a single-storey enclosed and gabled C20 porch with side entry. To the left of the stack, an open fireplace with curved back and ovolo-moulded brick arch; main beam with ovolo moulding and lamb's tongue stops with unusual double groove. To the right of the stack, a timber lintel, formed from a beam taken from a demolished rear section, bears the spurious date 1470. 2 fireplaces on the upper floor. Joists to the first floor ceilings set on edge; roof timbers plastered over. The 1½-storey rear range, with a chimney-stack set externally on the side wall, includes a massive old beam, and shows signs of extensive remodelling. It probably incorporates the earliest part of the building, to which the front section was added. The present lobby-entrance has been cut through studding on the front wall, and is clearly secondary.

Listing NGR: TM0146070134