Description

GREAT GADDESDEN CLEMENTS END ROAD TL 01 SW (West side) Ballingdon Bottom

3/74 Southings Farmhouse 26.1.67 (formerly listed as Southings Farmhouse, Gaddesden Row)

GV II

Farmhouse. C16 or earlier former open hall house, C17 chimney inserted in cross-passage and floor in hall, brick cased in C18, altered and extended on N in C19. Timber frame exposed only on 1st floor on S, infill panels and casing to house in red brick, sandier on S. Steep old red tile roofs. An irregular, 2-storeys house, facing S, enclosing the N side of the farmyard. A large 3-cells hall-house with a single long bay to the hall, unheated parlour with cellar under on W, very wide cross-passage in its own structural bay on E, and originally axially divided service rooms in E end bay beyond. Adapted to lobby-entry plan by building back-to-back fireplaces in stack occupying only W half of former cross-passage, and throwing rest into single space with partitions around former service rooms removed. S front has irregular fenestration, the upper floor being lit by small casement windows and 3 swept dormers. 4 windows to ground floor. Door now into E part of cross-passage, with garden door opposite to N. Cross-passage spanned by 2 heavy chamfered beams framed into cross-beams enclosing a central space occupied by C17 chimney but possibly designed for a late C16 timber framed chimney replaced in C17. Interior has exposed framing with wide-spaced studs, framing for blocked windows on upper floor of E bay, curved tension braces in walls, jowled posts, cambered tie-beams, clasped-purlin roof with long curved wind-braces, and square-butted scarf joint in wallplate. Floor over hall carried on chamfered axial beam jointed to chamfered cross-beams with mason-mitred junction of chamfers. Large hall fireplace has been narrowed. Chamfered lintel and oven formerly on N flank.

Listing NGR: TL0383413823

External Links

• Wikidata Q26467832

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