Eastfields

CHARLTON HORETHORNE

387/0/10011 MONUMENT TRIANGLE 23-APR-04 Eastfields

GV II House. Circa early C16; remodelled C18; extended C19 and C20. Limestone rubble. Clay plain tile roof with gabled ends. Red brick axial and gable-end stacks. PLAN: 3-room and cross/ through-passage plan [high end to the left], originally partly open to the roof. Remodelled in the C18 when the roof was raised and reconstructed, floors were inserted and a chimney stack was built in the cross/ through-passage with back-to-back fireplaces heating the hall and lower right end room and forming a lobby at the front. In the C19 an outshut was added to the rear and in the C20 a tall 2-storey extension was built on to the rear left [NW]. EXTERIOR: 1-storey and attic. Asymmetrical 3-window south front with 3-light casements on left, 4-light casement on right and plank door to right of centre; two 2-light attic casements in small gables with segmental brick arches over the windows. At rear [north] single-storey stone rubble outshut with corrugated-iron lean-to roof and tall C20 2-storey flat roof addition on right. INTERIOR: Right room has boxed-in cross-beam and slightly chamfered joists; fireplace blocked with C20 fireplace, over which there is a deeply-chamfered truncated beam. Former hall has unchamfered joists and large fireplace with chamfered timber bressumer with run-out stops, deeply chamfered beam above and Georgian cupboard to right with panelled door. Part of plank-and-muntin screen remains between former hall and inner room on left [west]. C20 staircase in rear of inner room. 4-bay roof structure with two tiers of tenoned-purlins, diagonally trenched ridgepiece and common-rafters intact; the truss over the hall appears to be slightly smoke-blackened, but it has been truncated and a small collar with a king-post replaces the apex of the truss. A good example of an C18 remodelling of a small late Medieval house, making a valuable architectural contribution to the centre of the village.