39/41, EAST STREET

FRITWELL EAST STREET SP52NW (East side) 3/28 No.39/41 - II

House. Mid/late C16, possibly partly earlier; altered and partly re-built C20. Part-coursed limestone rubble with renewed wooden lintels; concrete plain-tile roof with rubble ridge stack. 3-unit plan. One storey plus attic, altered to 2 storeys. Irregular 4-window front has renewed 2-light casements, and has the entrance and the garage doors in bays 3 and 4 where the wall breaks forward slightly. The upper part of the wall is later and there are several indications of early alterations and re-building. The right gable wall is battered near the front corner. Rear wall has the remains of a curved stair projection. The steep-pitched roof is raised at the front, and has a large rubble stack to right of bay one. Interior: Rain room has stop-chamfered joists spanning onto heavy intersecting stop-chamfered beads and perimeter beams, forming 5 sections around a massive chimney breast, with an open fireplace below a stop-chamfered bressumer. Stop-chamfered crass beam in garage has mortices for joists having soffit tenons with splayed abutments. Depressed-arched chamber fireplace has chamfer carried around jambs and bressumer. Walls are very thick and are battered internally. Masonry courses through with No.37 (Lilac Cottage) to left (not included) which may have formed part of the house.

Listing NGR: SP5278029148