42A And 42B, High Street

MILTON HIGH STREET SU4892 (West side) 8/161 Nos.42a and 42b GV II* House, now 2 dwellings. Early C14, with C15 extensions and later alterations. Stone rubble plinth; irregular timber-framing with tension braces and rendered infill; thatch roof; old plain-tile hipped roof to cross-wing; stone-based brick ridge stack to left of centre; brick ridge stack to cross-wing. Single-ended hall-house plan. Single storey and attic; 3-bay range with 2-storey, 3-bay cross-wing- to left. Flank door to left of main range. Irregular fenestration of casements. Interior not inspected but the following information fluted; west range has chamber-bay to west end, originally single-storeyed; which has partition truss with tie-beam, dragon-ties. Queen posts supporting arcade plates, and central crown-post. Next two bays were open hall; central arch-braced base-cruck truss with single tie and crown post over with chamfers and roll strips, and curved square 4-way braces. Brick and stone stack inserted into smoke-bay. Arcade plates end in aisled-end truss with bases of Queen-posts embedded in wing all and bevelled in imitation of stone corbels. Crown-post roof to cross-wing. Cross-wing originally jettied with dragon-ties at former corners. Original bargeboards survive in North end with cinqfoiled decoration. (Unpublished research information by Dr. C.R.J. Currie)

Listing NGR: SU4856092362