Description

TQ 59 NW STAPLEFORD ABBOTTS MURTHERING LANE 3/15 Olives Farmhouse II

Crosswing of C15 hall house, with extensions of the C17/18 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Service crosswing aligned approx. E-W, originally jettied to the E, of a hall house which formerly extended to the S, demolished. Replaced on the same site by a C17/18 building of 2 storeys with hipped roof. Internal chimney stack at the junction, blocking the eastern of a pair of twin doors originally opening off the cross-entry of the medieval hall into the service crosswing. 2-storey rear extension, C20. Single-storey lean-to extension in NW angle, C20. Single-storey extension to N, C20. 2 storeys. E elevation, 6-panel door in middle of C17/18 range, simple doorcase with shallow hood, late C18/early C19. 3 C20 casement windows. First floor, 4 C20 casement windows. In crosswing, exposed joists of horizontal section, unchamfered. Some exposed heavy studding. One of a former pair of service doorways with 4-centred arched head, blocked. Both ground floor hearths substantially altered in C20.

Listing NGR: TQ5159795337

External Links

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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