Description

FLAMSTEAD TROWLEY HILL ROAD
TL 0714
(West side)
9/60 No. 30 (Pound Farm)
-
GV II

Farmhouse, now a private house. C17 or earlier, brick casing C17 and
C18, S wing late C18. Timber frame in N range and S stable encased in
red brick, narrow C17 brick in English bond to stable and lower part of
S wall, Flemish-bond elsewhere. Dark weatherboarded W gable and W
kitchen, roughcast S gable. Steep old red tile roofs, hip at NE corner.
An L-shaped house of 2-storeys and dis-used attics, now entered from E.
Long N range formerly entered from S has a single-storey kitchen
extension at W beyond an external gable chimney, internal chimney to
middle, E end of roof altered when S parlour wing added on road front
with lateral chimney. This probably replaced a service wing linking to
single-storey stable. E front has 4 windows to both floors irregularly
placed and 4-panels flush-beaded door into E end of N range under a
gabled tiled open timber porch. 2-light casements to 1st floor, 3-lights
to ground floor with segmental arches. Projecting front wall chimney
between windows of S wing. 2-light casement windows to N range without
arches or face lintels. Brick curbed well outside in angle of wings.
Interior has C18 2-panels doors generally, exposed bay-posts in N wall
of N range and mortices in tie-beams for braces formerly springing from
posts in S wall. Jowled posts, clasped-purlin roof on queen-strut with
collar trusses. Stair rises beside internal chimney. Complex truss in N
wing to get over junction of wallplates at different heights.
Clasped-purlin roof with straight inclined queen-posts in stable.

Listing NGR: TL0783214497

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26467678

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