Timbers

Timbers is a house located in Urchfont, dating from the late 16th century and mid to late 17th century. It features a timber frame with brick noggings and a thatched roof. The building is single storey with an attic and consists of four bays arranged in a lobby entry plan. The layout includes a living hall and service room at the north end, with a parlour and a second unheated parlour on the south side. The framing consists of three panels high, with a heavy bressumer and both straight and curved corner braces. The main parlour was developed in the 17th century and includes an upper chamber, gabled with wide close-studding sills for the original oriel windows and carved bargeboards featuring a central drop pendant. There is a door located in a 20th-century lean-to porch on the east side, along with 20th-century timber windows. The house has a brick stack and a roof that is quarter hipped at both ends. Inside, there is a chalkstone and limestone stack with a chamfered stone lintel in the parlour, an ovolo moulded central spine beam with elaborate stops, and scratch moulded joists. The hall-kitchen features a timber fire lintel and scoop stops.