Description

TL 73 SW WETHERSFIELD BLACKMORE END ROAD
(south-west side)

1/98 Owl's Hall Farmhouse

- II

House. Mid-C16, altered in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade
red clay tiles. 4 bays facing NE, with central stack. C20 extension at left
end of L plan, extending to the rear. C20 gabled extension in front of stack.
One storey with attics. Ground floor, 5 C20 casements. First floor, 4 more,
including 2 in gabled dormers. C20 door in recessed porch. Jowled posts, close
studding. To left of the stack there is a chamfered binding beam with
step stops, heavy plain joists of horizontal section jointed to it with soffit
tenons with diminished haunches (replaced by later vertical joists in the left
bay) and a crownpost roof with axial bracing, the rafters replaced in softwood.
Large wood-burning hearth, partly rebricked. To right of the stack there is a
moulded binding beam and axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, and chamfered
joists of horizontal section with lamb's tongue stops. RCHM 52.

Listing NGR: TL7379030693

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26493659

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  For the Record
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)