Description

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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26284386

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Recommended Books

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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)