Description

TR 34 SE ST MARGARETS AT CLIFFE UPPER ROAD
(east side)
6/77
Wanstone Farmhouse

II

House. C15, rebuilt late C17 and extended mid C20. Red brick and flint
with plain tiled roof. Two storeys and basement with plat band and
corbelled eaves cornice. Lower sections of walls largely of flint with
some flint bands, the whole rebuilt with red brick in patches. Stacks
to centre left and projecting and offset at end right. Irregular
fenestration of wooden casements on each floor, and damaged panelled door
to centre right. Interior: much refitting C20,and C17; evidence remains
of timber framed house with through passage on present entry line, the
partition walls containing 1 four centred arched doorway, and slots for
lost door frames on service side. Large, braced vertical timbers also
survive in partitions, and in part in wall structure. Fine moulded
ceiling joists; inglenook fireplaces. Roof structure renewed. The house
is an ancient manorial site, abandoned and ruinous since army occupation
W.W.II.

Listing NGR: TR3553444945

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26323550

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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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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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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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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey