Description

TG 0510
13/72

MATTISHALL
MILL STREET (west side)
The Almonds including the Cottage

25.6.84

- II

Former farmhouse now divided into 2 dwellings. Late C16, extended in the early C18 and re-faced in c.1900.
Timber frame, faced with brick to front and rendered to rear. Corrugated tile roof. 2 storeys. Modern facade re-using 6 C18 mullion and transom window frames with single metal casements. Skewback concrete lintels with raised keystones to ground floor openings. South gable-end late C17 with 2 blocked oval windows. Rear lean-to with C17 brickwork. Other attached outbuildings not of special interest. One off-centre axial stack and one gable-end stack.
Interior. Timber frame of heavy scantling with wide chamfers and stepped run-out stops. Jowled wallposts and slightly cambered ties with one surviving arched brace. C17 added bay with ogee and nicked stops. 4 repositioned late C17 wavy stair balusters.
Modern roof.

Listing NGR: TG0541810583

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26344083

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)