Description

FRESSINGFIELD NEW STREET TM 27 NE 6/51 Mount Pleasant - -- II

Farmhouse. C15. Timber framed with modern textured render. The south gable is partly cased in C19 red brick; the north gable end was entirely rebuilt in brick in 1975. Pantiled roof. 2 storeys. C19 casement windows. C19 boarded and 4-panelled doors, both enclosed by a flat-roofed open porch. A late C19 canted ground floor bay to the south gable end. Internal stack with mid C20 shaft. A former open hall house with one-bay storied ends. Blocked paired service doorways with 4-centre arched heads. At the upper end of the hall a moulded and embattled dais beam and a similarly-ornamented beam at the lower end. against the cross-passage. Heavy 2-centre arched doorway to the parlour, perhaps of earlier date. Plain joists in parlour and to inserted floor in hall. Exposed studding on the upper floor, with tension braces in the surviving gable end wall. Cambered tie beam to open truss, the braces missing. Over the hall a queen-post roof with a ridge piece, all the components smoke-blackened. The roof originally may have been hipped over the end bays.

Listing NGR: TM2565777303

External Links

• Wikidata Q26284386

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)