Wells Bottom Farmhouse

TQ 33 NE LINGFIELD HERMITAGE ROAD (North side, off), 12/182 Baldwins Hill Wells Bottom Farmhouse II

House. C17 with C19 and C20 alterations and additions. Timber-framed with plaster infill, view tile-hung on concrete-rendered plinth right-hand bay with rendered ground floor. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys. 2-bay timber framed house, with 3rd bay added to right. C20 front conservatory and rear outshut additions, not of special interest. Entrance elevation : lst-floor overhanging and with earliest tile-hanging. C20 hipped-roofed porch with board door between right-hand bays; C20 door to right bay, masked by conservatory. Late C20, leaded pvc windows (of 2 lights to left bay, 3 lights to centre, 1 and 2 lights to 1st floor of right bay. Half-hipped roof with cross-ridge brick stack between right-hand bays. Rear: early C20 3-light window to centre, with mid-late C20 windows of 2 and 1 lights above, and 2 lights to right on ground floor. Left return: early C20 4-pane window to ground floor and 2-light wondow above, each with tile pentice. Right return: a 3-light window to each floor. Interior: Timber framing in 2 left-hand bays comprising sole plate, posts, studs forming wide panels mid-rail, lst-floor curved tension braces at left end, eaves plate, vertical posts in left gable, tie-beams and collared, bridle-jointed, rafters. On ground floor, evidence of former partition between bays (the left bay narrower) in the mortices in the soffit of the cross-beam; spine-beams with run-out-chamfers, pegged joists, inglenook fireplace with chamfered timber bressumer and rubblestone stack with former window in rear side positioned in rear right corner of larger, right-hand, room. Later partitioning between bays on 1st floor, presumably replacing earlier partition since it continues rog as a lath and plaster partition. Roof over left-hand bays has collared rafters.

Listing NGR: TQ3890839437