Description

TQ 7444 MARDEN CHURCH GREEN
(south side)

5/38 Church Green House

GV II

Farmhouse, formerly cottages, now house. Early-to-mid C17 with late
C18 facade. Timber framed. Ground floor red and grey brick in Flemish
bond, first floor weatherboarded. First floor of right (south) gable
end and right side of rear wing tile-hung. Plain tile roof. T-plan
house, built at right-angles to road. Main range of 3 timber-framed
bays formerly subdivided on ground floor into a 2-bay left room and a
single-bay right room; central rear wing of one timber-framed bay,
with stack bay between it and main range. Late C18 bay at right-
angles to left side of wing, infilling angle between it and main
range. 2-storeys and garret. Brick plinth. Half-hipped roof to both
ends of main range, to rear of wing, and to left gable end of C18
bay. Multiple filleted red and grey brick ridge stack to wing,
towards junction with main range. Irregular fenestration of 2
casements; one two-light towards centre and one three-light to right
end. Three ground-floor casements with segmental heads. Two-light
ovolo-moulded mullion attic windows to rear gable of rear wing.
Blocked doorway towards right end of central bay. Lean-to to right
side of rear wing, with half-glazed door. Interior: exposed framing,
with chamfered beams and shaped jowls. Plain brick fireplaces with
wooden bressumers to rear of stack on ground floor and front and rear
on first floor. Elliptical fireplace with bressumer to front side of
stack on ground floor. Stairs to attic to right of stack. Mortices
for six-light diamond mullion attic window to right end of main
range. Clasped-purlin roof with diminishing principal rafters, curved
windbraces, and vertical queen struts to collars. Formerly known as
Church Green.

Listing NGR: TQ7420244702

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26306434

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