High Elm Farmhouse

TL 97 SE STANTON UPTHORPE ROAD

3/55 High Elm Farmhouse

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Former farmhouse. Circa 1600: under restoration. 2 storeys and attics: 2- cell lobby-entrance plan. Timber-framed and rendered, with raised panels on front. Double Roman tiles, plain bargeboards. An internal chimney-stack with a large rectangular base and attached square shafts set diagonally, rebuilt tops finished with a dentil course, and cutwater bases. 4-light casement windows with horizontal bar, 1983. Frame in 3 bays, including a chimney-bay. All framing exposed inside. Widely-spaced, full-height studs to all walls, with middle rails morticed into the sides of the main posts, in front of the studs, to support the ends of the joists; reversed braces to corners. Main beams with ovolo-moulding in both ground storey rooms, joists with chamfer and pyramid stops. Ovolo-moulding also to fireplace lintels, and to the windows introduced into the 2 rooms to the west of the stack. All original windows have diamond mullions. Upper ceilings with joists set on edge: roof- space in use from the outset. 5-bay roof, clasped purlins, and a reversed, inward-sloping windbrace to each bay.

Listing NGR: TL9808272689