Great Oak Farmhouse

WICKHAM SKEITH TM 06 NE 2/144 Great Oak Farmhouse -

-- II Farmhouse. Late C14/early C15 with C16 in-line parlour addition to left. Timber framed, part plastered, the front cased in whitewashed brick. Thatched roof. 3 cells, the earlier work comprising a former open hall and associated service end. 1½ storeys. Various casement windows. Ground floor has 3 3- light mullion and transom windows without glazing bars, under segmental arches. 3 eyebrow dormers, one with an C18 3-light square-leaded window. Lobby entry has disused door with 6 raised fielded panels. Stack has rebuilt shaft. One-storey colourwashed brick lean-to on right gable end. Interior. Truss over former open hall has front half of massive cambered tie beam with intact brace. It carries an octagonal crown-post: base mutilated, capital with a single roll moulding above which there is thick 4-way bracing. Intact coupled rafters, heavily sooted. Lower end wall of hall has widely-spaced studding with down braces from a central stud to the tie beam. Remainder of medieval frame mostly concealed. Service partition removed; the cross-beam which carried it is hollow-moulded. Inserted floor in hall has ovolo-moulded main beam, the joists concealed. Stack inserted in upper end of hall, probably when parlour cell was added. Timbers in parlour cell largely concealed; there is a central cambered tie beam with missing braces. Roof over this section not examined.

Listing NGR: TM0931968397