Description

SAMPFORD PEVERELL ST 01 NW 4/137 Little Landslide Farmhouse - - II Farmhouse. Early-mid C16 with major later C16 and C17 improvements; refurbished in the late C19. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble stacks topped with C19 and C20 brick; interlocking concrete tile roof, formerly thatch. Plan and development: originally a 4-room-and-through-passage plan house facing south-east and built across a very gentle hillslope. At the left (south-west) end is a service-end kitchen. It has a large gable-end stack with a former walk-in curing chamber projecting from the rear corner. Between the kitchen and original through passage there is a small unheated dairy which includes the well. The rear of the passage is now blocked by a closet outshot. The other side of the passage there is the hall with a projecting rear lateral stack and at the right end a large parlour with a projecting gable-end stack. In the C19 a second passage was inserted through the parlour alongside the hall. To rear of this passage was built a new stair in a turret projecting to rear. C19 wash house outshot to rear of kitchen. Since the roofspace is inaccessible it is not possible to determine the early development of the house although it seems clear that it begun as some form of open hall house, probably heated by an open hearth fire. The present layout is how the house emerged after a series of modernisations. The hall fireplace was probably added in the mid or late C16 and the house progressively floored over from the mid C16 - mid C17. The hall was last to be floored in the mid C17. The parlour and kitchen ends were probably rebuilt and enlarged in the early or mid C17. The house is 2 storeys. Exterior: irregular 4-window front of late C19 and C20 replacement casements with glazing bars. The original passage front doorway left of centre contains a late C19 part-glazed 4-panel door and the secondary passage front doorway further right contains a superior contemporary 6-panel door. Both have C20 porches. Roof is gable-ended. Interior: contains mostly late C19 joinery detail but all the structural detail exposed is C16 and C17 and the old layout appears well-preserved. All the ceiling beams have deep soffit chamfers with step stops except the latest, the hall crossbeam, which is soffit-chamfered with scroll stops. The hall fireplace was apparently rebuilt at the same time that the hall was floored since its oak lintel is finished the same as the beam there. One of the 3 bays of the original parlour is taken up by the C19 passage and a crossbeam is exposed there. The other, in the parlour, is plastered over and the fireplace is blocked by a C19 grate. On the lower side of the original passage the headbeam of what looks like a plank-and- muntin screen shows. The kitchen has a very large stone rubble fireplace with a soffit-chamfered and step-stopped oak lintel. The curing chamber alongside has been converted to a cupboard. The roof is carried on a series of side-pegged jointed cruck trusses and although the roofspace is inaccessible the farmer believes the hall section at least contains timbers smoke-blackened from the C16 open hearth fire. This is an interesting and well-preserved farmhouse.

Listing NGR: ST0392515755

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)