Description

TM 07 SW WALSHAM LE WILLOWS CRANMER GREEN

3/36 Sunnyside House

II

Farmhouse. Late C16, C17 and mid c19. Timber-framed and rendered; old
plaintiled roofs. 2 storeys, part with attics; complex form, with a range
aligned north-south and extensions to east and west. Gables with fluted
bargeboards and spike finials; one internal and various external chimney-
stacks, all with plain red brick shafts. Mainly mid or late C19 fenestration:
the south gable end has a 2-storey canted bay addition with parapet, tented
roof, 3 large-paned sash windows to the upper floor and central half-glazed
French doors to the ground floor. To right and left, tripartite large-paned
sashes with narrow side lights. In the south-west angle a flat-roofed brick
addition for an entrance porch with an Edwardian fully glazed conservatory
beside it, extending along the whole front of the west wing. The north-south
range was the original house, with a 3-cell internal chimney plan. To the
south of the stack, a 2-bay room with boxed-in cross-beams and a timber
fireplace lintel with double roll-moulding and tuck-pointed brickwork; to the
north of the stack, 3 bays, with a former partition removed, a heavy main beam
with 3" chamfer and small solid supporting braces. On the upper floor, main
posts with long jowls, some good studding exposed, and one open truss with
cambered tie-beam and remains of arched braces. Roof in 6 bays with one row
of stepped butt purlins. The C17 addition to the east has a roof with
cambered collars and clasped purlins. The long west wing is all mid-
Victorian, with an earlier 1½-storey former dairy in the north-west angle.

Listing NGR: TM0205171375

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26283556

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Recommended Books

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)