Description

TQ 64 SW CAPEL SYCHEM LANE, FIVE OAK GREEN

5/285 The Clock House
9.5.90

GV II

House, formerly a coach house with summerhouse above. Mid/late C19, converted
to a house circa 1970. Flemish bond red brick; brick stacks and
chimneyshafts; slate roof to main house, peg-tile roof to turret.

Plan: Originally this was built as a coach house facing north west. Above it
was a single large room, a summerhouse heated by a stack in the left (north
east) end wall, a balcony on the front and picturesque oriel window turret
projecting from the right end wall. Circa 1970 the building was converted to
a dwelling and both floors were then subdivided. The central axial stack
dates'from this conversion. 2 storeys.

Exterior: Deliberately picturesque elevation in the High Victorian style. 2-
window front. At ground floor level a C20 doorway and window occupy the
position of the former coach house entrance. The lintel which was originally
over the coach house double doors still remains. At first floor level 2
original glazed French windows onto the timber balcony which is carried on a
series of joists with shaped ends. Tented zinc roof with shaped timber
vallance is supported on rustic posts and trellis-work under the handrail.
Plain deep eaves and tall roof is hipped both ends. It contains a gabled
dormer with shaped bargeboards, finial and pendant, but this is not a window;
it contains a clockface. To right at ground floor level a stone plaque is set
into the wall and it is inscribed with the initials CAB, PC, PM and RAC along
with a freemasonry motif. This end the corner is rounded and contains a
window on each floor, both with Tudor-style hoodmoulds. The first floor
window is an original horned 10/6-pane sash window but the ground floor one is
a C20 window which replaced a former doorway there. Further round on the
right end wall is an ornamental oriel window turret serving the first floor.
It is a boarded timber-framed structure, circular in plan and resting on a
pair of shaped timber brackets. Its tall and narrow windows have glazing bars
only at the top. It rises above the eaves to a square-plan bellcote-like
structre with open sides and wavy headed bays. Above a modillion eaves
cornice deep eaves carry a splayed spire-like roof. The original stack on the
opposite end wall has an original tall octagonal chimneypot. To rear the roof
is half-hipped. Below the ground floor has been altered; a carriageway
entrance has been blocked and C20 windows put in but at first floor level
there are 2 more original horned 10/6 sash windows with Tudor-style
hoodmoulds.

The Clock House forms part of a picturesque group of buildings with Lydd
Farmhouse (q.v.) and its outbuildings.

Listing NGR: TQ6444844753

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26545231

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Recommended Books

• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)