Description

ST 11 SE CLAYHIDON
6/14 Searles
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- II
Also known as French Nut Tree Cottage.
Detached house. Late C16 or early C17, and considerably altered. Random rubble
chert; hipped slate roof. The house has been so altered that it is difficult to
determine the original plan; 2 jointed cruck with collars that are both chamfered
and stopped suggests that it might be a fragment of a larger building, perhaps a
wing, for such high-quality roof carpentry would be unusual in a house as small as
the present. Right-hand end stack. 2 storeys.
Exterior: front: irregular fenestration; 2 half dormers and 2 C20 casement windows
to ground floor. Some masonry disturbance suggests some rebuilding on the left-hand
side, and the end elevation is mid C20.
Rear: leanto, with a single light window to the left of the doorway. The doorway,
possibly late C16, with chamfered jambs and cranked, pegged lintel.
Interior: left-hand room with 2 cross ceiling beams, chamfered with hollow step
stops, and a chamfered half beam near the present (rebuilt) end wall.
Roof with 2 jointed cruck trusses; the collars, set high, are chamfered with step
stops; trenched purlins; Alcock F2 type apex carpentry. The chamfered collars were
presumably visible in what was once a high status chamber, perhaps in a parlour
wing. The first local mention of the name Searles is in the will of John Searle of
Hemyock, d.1613, he may have built the house.

Listing NGR: ST1604013752

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26400406

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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